Incognito Innominatus wrote:
Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Nonsense. Targeting innocents is evil according to EVERY human culture. The fact that people do it, does not make it "relative." It just makes them evil. Period.
Not according to Tim May. He was the one who wrote that he was becoming convinced that Tim McVeigh had done the right thing. "Some innocents died, but hey, war is hell. Broken eggs and all that." Those are his exact words, May 9, 1997. He's also the one that has called for the burning of millions of innocents by nuclear fire.
If targeting innocents is evil, what can we say about those who applaud such actions? Doesn't Tim May, by his own words, show himself to be evil by the standards of every civilized human culture?
Apples and oranges. There is a world of difference between targeting innocents (the focus of my post) and targeting military targets with resultant innocent casualties. If a gunman grabs a human shield and starts shooting at me, I will (regrettably) return fire. Hopefully, I'll hit the bad guy and not the innocent human shield, but if I do hit the hostage, the moral responsibility is on bad guy, not me. S a n d y