The killing of Osama Bin Laden gave my fellow classmates with very different reactions, which left me interested to find out what my parents thought of event.
At dinner last night, my mom shocked me with an angry reaction. She went off, saying how we should've captured him and made him pay for the thousands of lives he took. According to my mom, "killing him was the nicest thing we could have done." I think by this, she meant that Bin Laden had recently been living a less than ideal life, what with him having to hide and him being in poor health. I suppose that my mom thought that by killing him, the US was 'putting him out of his misery'.
While I see where my mom is coming from, I also had to remind her that we would gain absolutely nothing by capturing him. By trying to squeeze information out of Bin Laden, this would clearly lead to torture which is an extremely controversial idea. So what should have been done? Was killing Bin Laden really the only reasonable option?
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