tastiger opened this issue on May 28, 2008 · 48 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 29 May 2008 at 2:58 AM
Quote - Taking things in such a simplistic fashion doesn't work, though Xenophonz.
Actually, getting to the core of the issue, and stripping away the extraneous modern-sophistry does work. Rather: it is attempts to muddy the issue via the agency of bringing up totally unrelated (not strained -- broken) analogies that doesn't work.*
*The problem with the gun example lies in its premise. Namely: that harming "innocent victims" in warfare -- such as the citizens of Berlin in 1945 -- equates to a bank robber shooting a hapless bank customer who just happened to be transacting his business at the wrong time. Sorry -- the moral equivalence isn't there. You can't stop Hitler without destroying his nation's capacity to fight. But there is no such similar moral justification for killing someone while engaged in robbing a bank. The two situations simply don't equate. And neither situation equates to the central subject here.