I think this is the question you may have wished to ask, since it requires us to think of the outer limits of the kind of conduct in which we are willing to engage. But since I beat you to it, what is your response to my question?
Actually, I thought that it was the question that I already asked, more or less. And answered. <vbg back atcha>
One problem is the difficulty most people have of getting out of the box into the moccasins of the aggrieved. Huge chasm there. Another one is the discomfort most people have with introspection, particularly examining their potential for "bad" behavior. Another is that the topic is too abstract and heavy for the pace of this thread. Another, I suspect, is that people are wary of gotcha trolling.
This was my first draft of what turned into the question, three days ago: "I can imagine scenarios in which the situation was reversed--where you believed in your soul that you and yours had a noble cause to fight off an overpowering enemy. I don't imagine you opposing or turning in to the enemy members of the resistance movement who fought the enemy in that way. Maybe you would, but that's not how you come across to me."
And this was my first crack at an answer: "Personally, I'm sure I could never go so far as to specifically target little kids, but I think that I could target marketplaces if I truly believed my cause was just and existential, if I thought the tactic could be effective, and if there was no conventional alternative." |
