They were killed for a cause, and we have to go through with it.
What has been overlooked thus far are the drama's deeper, and contemporary, resonances: how ordinary citizens can be radicalised by a state-sponsored war of terror waged indiscriminately against them; what killing for a cause does to an individual's soul.
It's the difference between dying for a cause and killing for a cause and I don't think Neal could ever understand anybody killing for a cause.
Which returns us to the idea of the moral justifiability or excusability of killing for a political cause, out of which this definitional headache in part stems.
Those who tortured and killed for any cause could, by fully disclosing their offenses, win an amnesty.
The author seems to be interested in a particular distillation of Englishness: "bravery, endurance, an ironic obedience to necessary authority, a readiness to kill for the cause given half a chance".
Bruck was suggesting that the death penalty is irrevocably tainted by racism, but he had seemed to equate Vesey, a man who was prepared to kill for the cause of black freedom, with Roof, a man who had killed because he thought that blacks were too free.
When he ran in the army actually ran away and retreated, so he was killed for a really good cause.
We come here, we live in honour, why would you go back to prison?" Amer also said that his brother Abdullah, who had recently died, was killed for a "really good cause".
