the Palestinian suicide bombing is qualitatively different from Al-Qaida.
I am not sure I know exactly what you mean by this statement, John, but I am sure I disagree with it, in any case. :)
In both cases you listed above, innocents are being deliberately picked out to be killed. So I see no quality difference between the two. Both are immoral actions for the exact same reason and to the same extent.
BTW, when we, or the Israelis, kill innocents in fighting a war, it is done is spite of our desire to kill only participants, the innocents are not the the direct target.
If you want to say that our action is immoral also, you are saying that self defense is immoral. I could make a case for that viewpoint, that all violence is immoral. However, even if it is immoral, self defense is rational, and therefore right, IMO. |
