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To: Ilaine who wrote (135535)	6/4/2004 1:15:36 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Anyway, the answer to your question is that in the West, if a soldier kills innocent children due to an honest mistake, we are not happy at all, but we do not think he is a criminal. If he is reckless, that is bad, maybe criminal, but probably not evil....But a man who can walk up to a child and deliberately shoot that child in the head, that man is evil. What do we think about one more category; if a soldier fires a rocket into a crowd to kill one enemy but knows that the rocket will also kill many innocents? Is that evil? Does it depend on the "badness" of the enemy in the crowd? Does it depend on whether the innocents look like us and share common values with us? Or does it have anything to do with morality at all; maybe it's just about expediency and self interest and power? Once you allow yourself to get past the line of killing in necessary and justifiable self-defense, where do you stop and what criteria do you use?