Can there be any "wrong ways" if there are no "Right ways"?
Yes. Some ways are clearly far worse than others.
Example: one way of ending all war on earth would be to destroy the planet.
Hopefully even you would agree that this is 'wrong' - or at least among the worst possible ways...
Was the attack on the WTC, just one "Valid" expression among many?
I would say it was a vile and wrong act. I presume you, as nearly all the civilised world, would agree.
Osama bin Laden evidently thinks it was right, and entirely justified by the terms of his faith.
It doesn't matter (to him) that we think it wrong - he thought it was right, and therefore valid, and it was planned and carried out at his behest. After all, it must be good because the word of his God makes it so.
Of course, he may well think it's wrong that the West now plans to see the Taliban overthrown, his organisation destroyed, and himself rot for a very, very long time in incarceration to reflect on the error of his ways... (ideally with endless 24/7 loops of the 700 Show to brighten his time <g>).
Whereas I think this is entirely right. And much more civilised, lingering and unpleasant for him than a quick and easy death.
These things are relative, yes? |
