Assassination is an act of war and must be approached as such.
Assassination is a quick release from intolerable fate, an act of sunny optimism that one man’s end will alter the flow of events in society’s favor.
Assassination is a state of mind, a checkmate. Your opponent may still have pieces on the board, but with his king gone, he’s lost the game.
Assassination is an efficient and merciful act. Rather than killing everyone in the room, the assassin shoots the one person he needs to.
Assassination is the highest form of triage, its ultimate ratio being to save society rather than destroy it.
Assassination is a conservative force, the paring down of war to its absolute minimum. One murder in excess is mere murder.
Assassination is a fantastically leveraged act, a David and Goliath contest where cunning and surprise overcome brute force.