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melon said:
Why grant martyrdom to these tyrants by killing them? I often prefer the fate granted to Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy. He was given a life sentence, and spent the last 21 years of his life sentence completely alone, left to degenerate into madness until the ripe old age of 93. Execution would have been the easy way out for him.
To be fair, I also should add that the quoted Jesuit authors who wrote about the tyrants only excused killing if there was no other possibility - so to say, no other way to get rid of them. Means, if you can overthrow them and they rot in prison, that´s always better than killing them. What if you can´t overthrow them, can´t catch them, can´t put them in prison? As to Hitler, some tried to assassinate him, but did not succeed. (If they had succeeded) I don´t think anyone would be opposed to the assassination, given the history of WWII.
Indeed, the discussions of the Jesuits also focused on the problem what would happen when the tyrant was removed; one could say that action against a tyrant would only be supported when the chances for success were high enough, basically to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.