President Obama: Do you really love America?

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Intent is still key in this discussion.

Intent is as useful for this discussion as a used toilet paper is to clean your hands.

You can sit in your ivory tower all day long and go on about one intent being morally superior to the other. It doesn't change the fact that innocent people die, thereby creating more potential enemies in the process. Everyone being honest with themselves and having enough empathy to walk in the shoes of others for a mile will understand the need for revenge. Especially if there is no court to bring the case to.

Here's another example. I'm coming to your house and shoot your wife. Oh, oops, sorry. I meant to hit the burglar in the garden. Will you pat my shoulder and say it's all right because my intent was to protect your belongings?

Too close to home? That's how fundamentally stupid this discussion about intent actually is.