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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Pacifier, it's the mind *behind* the killing that matters.
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So if a US soldier kills a not guilty suspect by torturing him that "kill" is better than the beheading of a US civillian?
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dragonlich
The difference is quite obvious: terrorists kill to kill, while the US army wants to kill to *stop* the killing.
...right?
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wrong, you see the terrorists as mindless killing machines without any kind of goal or reason. You see them as their only reason to live is to kill.
That point of view is so black/white that it hurts.
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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
— Albert Einstein
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