Pat Robertson - Aren't you glad he's on ABC Family?

[Prudence]

I particularly like the idea that it's so much better that he's just advocating kidnapping. Murder would be bad but kidnapping? Hey! That's just great!

Here's my moral relativism of the day:
Of course it would be naive to think that such things (murder, kidnapping, etc) were not sponsored by the various governments of the world. They do happen. And in some cases, hindsight allows us the benefit of marking them as "good." Or at least "better than the alternative."

But it's one thing to know the such things happen, and it's quite another for a very public figure in a very public forum to go around advocating for such actions.

No, in the end it doesn't matter whether it was talked about first or just done. It doesn't make "taking out" any more moral if we don't talk about it. But when public figures shift from being uncomfortable with discussing the subject in public to outright advocation I think that does say something about our society. It's one thing to do an "evil" deed reluctantly. It's quite another to do it enthusiastically.

[wendybeth]

Well, it seems he has decided to own up and apologise . Fair enough- it seems reasonably delivered and he doesn't try to reduce it with excuses too much. I still despise him, but I think he finally got around to doing the right thing, whatever his motives.