“What about the hangman? Doesn’t he do murder, then?” [No, because enough people say it isn’t. That’s what a… — Terry Pratchett
“What about the hangman? Doesn’t he do murder, then?”
[No, because enough people say it isn’t. That’s what a courtroom is for. It’s where the law happens.]
“And that makes it right? Didn’t God say, ‘Thou shalt not kill’?”
[Yes. But after that it got complicated.]
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