patrice
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Fri Feb-01-08 08:42 AM
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If killing people for what they MIGHT do is a principle that we are following, then every last one of us is in danger from every one else, because anyone MIGHT do almost anything. According to this principle, you might rob me, so I should kill you now to PREVENT your robbing me.
The concept of pre-emption is more specifically and directly tied to a more statistically probable event. I could pre-empt your arguments/attacks against this post by countering the points you are most likely to make **before** you make them and by not insulting you.
People more expert than I have been writing on the difference between Preventive and Pre-emptive policies. You can probably wiki it and I think William Pitt at Truth Out has written on it too.
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