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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Too bad that you're dead wrong.
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Maybe, but your statement sounded like that.
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I don't see terrorists as mindless killing machines. I understand that they have a goal. I just happen to think that their goal is evil, insane, undemocratic, inhumane and totally against my interests. In other words: they're the enemy, no matter if they have a goal or not.
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OK, but I think understanding the goal and motivation of the enemy make it easier to find a solution. A solution that involves not the usage of more violence than the enemy.
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Perhaps it would be better to say that the US strives for order, while terrorists strive for chaos. Whereas too much order is a bad thing, too much chaos is a very bad thing.
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yes, somehow thats true, Terrorism work with the fear of the masses.
An additional note to the Nazis comparisons:
Those are irrelevant to the question if the mind behind the killing counts, to see if the mind count you have to compare two identical situations (both armies killing civilians). In that case I don'T see how the mind counts.
In your exaples it is always "kiling civilians" vs. "killing soldiers", in that case the mind behind the killing doesn't matter, killing civillians is always wrong