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To: one_less who wrote (1531)	9/22/2006 12:01:35 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

In our system, which is pragmatic as well as idealistic, no public good is absolute. We're willing to accept "collateral damage" of civilians in service of the "greater good." Thus, if we found Bin Laden, along with a dozen high ranking members of Al Qaeda, and one of his minor children, odds are very good that we'd bomb the whole bunch, child included, rather than let him get away again. Is this immoral? I honestly don't know which is morally preferable, deliberately killing one innocent person in order to save countless innocent people who exist in the abstract, or not.