(February 26, 2015 at 9:54 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Intent is key to an analysis of morality. Unintended casualties in war is deeply unfortunate. Deliberately setting out to kill civilians just for the sake of stoking fear is evil.
I'd say callous disregard for those "unintended" casualties is just as bad, and our use of drones and the level of uncertainty with which we fire their rockets fall into that category. There was an interview on the daily show with a guy from Pakistan that says the average Pakistani with no ties to extremism whatsoever lives in total fear of drone strikes, because we're so concerned about getting the bad guy that we don't care enough to gather enough information to justify using rockets.
It's like Chuck said, we re-label terrorism when its terrorism that suits our needs.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
