Jeremy Stangroom

@PhilosophyExp state still, had Mussolini been spared. That's just one examples of many.

@skepteaser a Mussolini lookalike, for example. So it has the standard problems associated with consequentialist justifications.

@PhilosophyExp Even if regarded as an act of (civil) war akin to other situations where taking prisoners would jeopardise your own survival?

@skepteaser The further away it gets from being a strictly judicial execution, the more I'm tempted by the utilitarian argument.

@PhilosophyExp OK. Thanks.

@skepteaser Do you know the story of this guy?http://bit.ly/GVWxNs  It's morally much more complex than the photo suggested.

@PhilosophyExp I recognised instantly as the subject of the famous picture, but I don't know his story. Give me a minute.

@PhilosophyExp I would say that he's neither a villain nor a hero, just a soldier caught doing the ugliest part of his job.