Assassination

       In class today, we talked about assassination. Some reasons why, and some examples of famous assassinations in history. My group and I focused on the assassination of Leon Trotsky. In both cases of assassination that I've talked about, there was a different cause. In Julius Caesar, the cause of murder tas to take out a person for the greater good, which Brutus explained as "a worthy sacrifice", and not a cold blooded butcher. In the case of Leon Trotsky, it was due to Joseph Stalin's paranoia that Leon would still be able to overthrow him as leader of the communist revolution in Russia, so to prevent this from happening, he sent an assassin to "take out the competition". In my opinion, I do think that assassinations are justifiable, however, the matter of whether or not an organized hilling is justifiable depends on the context of the situation itself. For example, in Julius Caesar, it really depends on how you see the reasons for assassination, on one hand, the conspirators give some pretty good reasons to why Caesar must die, but on the other, none of them have an actual solid reason with evidence to kill Caesar. In the murder of Leon Trotsky, the reason for this assassination was based purely on a paranoid whim that Leon might be back to challenge Joseph Stalin for power in the rise of Communism. A comparison from Leon Trotsky's murder and Caesar's murder is that in both cases, it was because a conspirator ( Cassius and Stalin) accused the victim of something he may or may not have done: overthrowing Stalin in Trotsky's case, and being a ruthless dictator in Caesar's case.