How come lone nut assassins only take out good people?

[ProfWag]

[Arouet]

Actually, I was more thinking how people like JFK and John Lennon would be considered "good"? Maybe they were, but I really think it depends on your definition. If singing or avocating for peace publicly makes someone "good" then fine - but I think that's pretty simplistic. JFK was a hard nosed politician, John Lennon a rock star. Maybe they were "good" but its not quite that black and white.

[ProfWag]

[RelentlessAlarm]

Who is good and who is not is debatable, but from a purely psychological level, those who tend to go through with assassination (so determined they are to succeed that they do), are probably deeply negative people - either sociopaths/psychopaths themselves or overwhelmed by, intimidated by, frightened by those who exude (or are perceived as exuding) a large amount of positive energy.

People who are proponents for positivity generally have difficulty mustering a hate so complete as to wish anyone, regardless of how evil, dead to the point of actual follow through. This is why in life it often feels that "evil" has the upper hand. Those who exist in or surround themselves with hate and negativity will generally do things loving and positive people can not bring themselves to do. Thus, negativity often is in a position of power (it's an unfair race when some contestants are willing to cheat and others are not).

These are obvious generalizations and there are always exceptions, but I think the perceived imbalance is probably quite simple - there is a temperament and personality difference. My guess is "lone positive nuts" tend to be more likely to separate from society, meditate, go in themselves, and if to the point of being destructive harm themselves or start compound cults, voluntary mass suicides, etc. The nutty energy is simply directed differently with often different nutty results.

As for the point that some politicians have to make tough choices - true, but I tend to think that genuinely positive people are not drawn into professions or duties that force them to frequently act antithetical to their positive principles without some serious rationalization and denial at work (i.e., they are not as enlightened or spiritually evolved as they one day could be). Furthermore, this creates a different scenario. Pushing a big red button to kill thousands of nameless peasants, for some sad reason, tends to be an easier task for those with consciences to perform (because it distances the blame and guilt thus making denial and rationalization easier). However, that same person might find it incredibly difficult to pick up a sniper and personally put a bullet through another, named individual's skull.

[Scepcop]

[Arouet]

[Nathan Jones]

Lee Harvey Oswald was taken out by a lone assassin.

[Scepcop]

[Scepcop]

[Arouet]

[Twain Shakespeare]

[Arouet]

Scepcop believes that lone nut's aren't really "lone" but are set up as patsies by the military industrial conplex.

[Twain Shakespeare]

[ProfWag]

[Scepcop]

I have a question.

Wouldn't it be difficult to get a paid assassin to take out someone important? I mean, think about it. Put yourself in their shoes. If you were an assassin, you'd know that after you commit the assassination, you may very well be taken out yourself as part of the cover up. Right? Wouldn't that thought cross your mind?

After all, even in movies, bad guys often betray each other and eliminate each other after they have served their purpose. They show this in movies all the time. Wouldn't it be the same in real life? If so, how do bad guys trust each other?

If Lee Harvey Oswald was working for US intelligence, then obviously they double crossed him, and framed him for the JFK assassination. And if Jack Ruby worked for the mafia, then they betrayed him as well, and left him to die in jail (allegedly) after he silenced Oswald.

So how do the bad guys get people to commit assassinations on high profile people? How did they get someone to shoot JFK?

Wouldn't they have to be mind controlled with MK-ULTRA methods? Otherwise, a clear thinking clever person would know that they are likely to get taken out themselves after the assassination, rather than just paid and let go, right?