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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (2455)	7/28/2005 12:56:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541791

isn't this a form of hair splitting? [I think it is] for when I think suicide bomber I think terrorist A suicide bomber is someone who blows himself up along with his target. A terrorist is distinguished from other combatants by his targeting of innocent civilians with bombs or other weapons. Now, which is it that so offends our sensibilities? I submit that it's the latter. The problem with conflating them is that it interjects extraneous issues. For example, the moral question of suicide or of the cruelty of blowing people up rather than shooting them unnecessarily distracts from the moral question of targeting civilians and we lose focus. In a war, losing focus isn't helpful. And supposedly this is a war on terrorism, after all.