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Assassinating someone means like a 99.99% chance of completely ruining your life and really fucking up the life of everyone you love. The truth is that almost nobody is noble and brave enough to do this just because they think it's for a good cause. Less than one in a million people have that kind of conviction, period, for any reason. Now how many of them have that kind of conviction for healthy well-adjusted reasons? I would bet almost none of them. There are like 50 roads to travel to end up as a political assassin. Half of them involve doing it for your job, like with the government assassinating its enemies. The other half involve you bring completely insane or delusional. There's literally like 1 road that is the road of just being so selflessly convicted in your beliefs that you are willing to ruin your entire existence for your cause (and this is regardless of whether your cause is actually good or not). I think this is why Luigi has stuck out as so powerful to people, because he may actually be a very very rare example of someone who derived their strong conviction without the aid of mental unwellness. (But even he got caught, so...) So yeah, I think most of the unpaid assassins are probably not mentally 100% solid lol. The fact is it is pretty much insane to decide to kill people, so it's pretty much insane people that are killing people.
100%. You bring up some great points.
I have nothing to add, except I think Emma Goldman has a really good essay on political violence I think everyone should read. (though, not sure it very much applies to this particular act of political violence)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1917/political-violence.htm