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Cameron Nolan makes a gruesome proposal. (letters and debate).

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1014 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Cameron Nolan makes a gruesome proposal. (letters and debate).(Letter to the Editor)

Article Excerpt
I believe that a leader of a country who sends their military into a war which would definitely result in casualties, should be made to cut the throat of an enemy soldier or civilian with their own two hands, in their own office, before signing the order. I believe this mechanism should constitutionally prelude the start to any war.

On one level, this proposal seems childishly gruesome, morally abject and practically impossible. No leader would ever consent to personally executing an unarmed soldier or civilian in such a manner before being able to make an executive decision as commander-in-chief. The criticisms of such an idea are endless and it is unimaginable that any people or parliament would spare this proposal a moment's contemplation.

However, on another more philosophical and hypothetical level, I see extraordinary value in such a mechanism. As history reverts to its insidious habit of repeating itself, we are...

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