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I'm listening, I'm focusing and I'm still not following you. Humanitarianism does indeed value human life over all, but the decision to kill the terrorists would be accepted as a last resort because it would ultimately save the most people.
Even if humanitarianism did denounce the bombing of the terrorists as being hasty and wrong, that still does not devalue the entire system. No system of human judgement is flawless.
The Hitler example also does not disprove humanitarianism because the doctor is not responsible for the actions of his patient. Human beings can often be random and unpredictable and its unfair to assume that one person can judge the heart and intent of another, especially when one of them is extremely young. A lot can happen in a few years.
Humanitarianism is a system of ideals and while they might not ever be realized, the striving for an ideal improves the world around us. Just because an ideal can't be realized in a certain situation does not reduce the value of the ideal.
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