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A person or group of persons killing innocent bystanders, andhave been exhausted, end up killing some of the captors.
threatens the lives of those attempting to diffuse the situation is not the
same as a person who is attempting to diffuse the situation, and, in the
course of attempting to diffuse the situation, and after non-violent means
In other words, you basically concede my point. The SWAT team is justified in their action because they have followed a moral course - i.e. first attempting non-violent means. The terrorists are not, because they did not follow a moral course. The righteous are justified to kill, others are not.
Allow me to twist the situation - during the storming of the bus, the terrorists kill a SWAT team member, and the SWAT team kills a terrorist. Once again, the first killing is unjustifiable and wrong. The second is not.
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of isntitutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
