Reply #133: Not so sure it does. If you believe in the principle that , if you are

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accused of a capital crime, you are entitled to a trial before being executed, then Kant would argue that same right to a trial extends to everyone, including the blackest of souls, even to Satan him- or herself.

My degree was in History (Intellectual and Modern Euroepan emphases).

It's not how Osama expects to be treated. It's what we expect of ourselves as a supposedly civilized people.

And, as Monty Python pointed out, "Immanuel Kant was a big pissant." :)