You have to love the hypocrisy, don't you?

It was like Lefty in Donnie Brasco said....

Lefty: There's the boss. And, under him, there's the skipper. You know how this works?

Donnie Brasco: Yeah, it's like in the army.

Lefty: *beep* The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know.

So the fat cats of multinationals get the gubment to do the killing and that's OK. Some hitman is whacking out scumbags - let's face it, if he's coming to your door there's probably a good reason - and he's a monster?

Nixon's illegal bombings in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand killed an approximate 600,000 people over the course of the Vietnam war. Another 100,000 more recently in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, etc. etc. etc....

And a hitman killing 100 people - who most of which likely deserved it anyway - and he's a monster?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say he's an innocent or anything like it, just that compared to what governments do in the interest of foreign policy and business the man comes up smelling like a saint comparatively.

Or from another great film, Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"....

Zulu War Soldier: Here is better than home, eh, sir? I mean, at home if you kill someone they arrest you, here they'll give you a gun and show you what to do, sir. I mean, I killed fifteen of those buggers. Now, at home they'd hang me, here they'll give me a *beep* medal, sir."