In Which Zandar Answers Your Burning Questions

William Saletan over at Slate asks:

Is it wrong to murder an abortionist?

If abortion is murder, the most efficient thing you could have done to prevent such murders this month was to kill George Tiller.

That's him, verbatim.

Is Saletan arguably the largest asshole on Earth today, or what? More verbatim.

Is that statement wrong? Is it wrong to defend the life of an unborn child as you would defend the life of a born child? Because that's the question this murder poses. Peaceful pro-lifers have already tried to prosecute Tiller for doing late-term abortions they claimed were against the law. They failed to convict him. If unborn children are morally equal to born children, then Tiller's assassin has just succeeded where the legal system failed: He has stopped a mass murderer from killing again.

I give up. Honestly. If you're a mainstream journalist and you're saying "Well, yeah, it's okay to question whether or not a doctor like this should have been killed but you really shouldn't kill people" you no longer have credibility at all. But here's his big finish:

If you don't accept what he did, then maybe it's time to ask yourself what you really believe. Is abortion murder? Or is it something less, a tragedy that would be better avoided? Most of us think it's the latter. We're looking for ways to prevent abortions—not just a few this month, but millions down the line—without killing or prosecuting people. Come and join us.

Yes, join us in preventing the next murder of the next abortionist by helping us outlaw all abortion! No abortions, no doctors getting murdered.

See how remarkably reasonable Saletan is?