Dr Kynes
Well-Known Member
when you live within the city walls of Samarkand and the Mongols start catapaulting stones over the merlons, they didnt actually TARGET your house, your house and it's occupants were in the way. is this sufficiently clear?I'm not sure you are in the right context here. You assume that a civilian living in their home is "in the way" . That's interesting. Just because something happens on a frequent basis, wars and killing of innocents , it doesn't mean it is justified does it? Your reference to Somali pirates...hmm...how is that relevant to a discussion of whether it is just to kill innocent people?
the sniped pirates were not tried in a court of law, and in fact those of their comrades who were tried, were acquitted of all but the least serious offenses, thus they must by definition have been innocent of the crime of piracy, and as theft does not hold a death sentence in the US surely you must see the relevance.