Opinion of the execution of the Romanovs

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Freedom Execution. Royalty a grave offense against human decency.

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Freedom Execution. Royalty a grave offense against human decency.

Unlike actually putting a human in a grave?

The execution of the Romanov family is literally nothing compared to the amount of people who died as a direct result of said family's rule

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Freedom Execution. Royalty a grave offense against human decency.

Unlike actually putting a human in a grave?

The execution of the Romanov family is literally nothing compared to the amount of people who died as a direct result of said family's rule

Only one person executed actually ruled.

Not important. They were all royalty, which is grounds enough to liquidate them.

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Freedom Execution. Royalty a grave offense against human decency.

Would you favor a similar end for the Windsors? 

I think we all know the answer to that.

I favor the abolition of all monarchies. How the British people would handle such a situation is up to them.

TNF do you think Sascha and Malia Obama deserve death? (assuming you think their father deserves execution)

Of course not. The United States is a (flawed) republic, so I wouldn't advocate or even imagine anything of the sort happening here.

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I don't think there's such a thing as a freedom execution. All executions are murder and all murder is bad, justified or not.

So a slave murdering his overseer is bad?

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In general, I do not believe that specific families need to be snuffed out. However, I do believe that in the context of the Romanov family, allowing any one of the Romanovs to live was more or less allowing for the Whites to claim a figurehead with which they could organize support and mobilize it from afar, and so the only option for the Bolsheviks in that context was to get rid of them, root and branch. I don't think that negates my previously stated position (all royals are criminals), because royalty is a crime in and of itself. No person should be permitted to declare themselves above and outside the community, and the community should be empowered to resist, by any means necessary anyone who attempts to do so. I suppose I have a very Roman view of the whole thing in that regard.

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Pretending that the Duma was anything other than a fig-leaf for absolutism is cute

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Pretending that we shouldn't take into account the conditions under which one kills is what "isn't a good thing," because it confines those who defend others, or those who rebel against unjust authority as just as wrong in those cases as those who seek to rape, murder, maim, or oppress other people. That's not morality. Morality without context is immorality.