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To: P-40

As would I. Many on this board would call us murderers for that.


We are not the same.

There is a big difference. On one hand you have collateral damage that occurs when you are forced to kill your enemy. This must be avoided whenever possible. Sometimes you cannot avoid it. However; this is not the same as murdering a helpless person in a hospital bed.

The distinction seems beyond your understanding.

I pity you.


147 posted on 06/21/2007 8:48:42 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear
There is a big difference.

As pointed out by posters earlier, murder is murder. In one case you are preventing the future suffering of the intended targets by killing passengers in their seats, in the other you are easing suffering of patients in their beds when the outcome is death either painfully or comfortably. Any way you want to look at it, it is still what many here would call murder.
148 posted on 06/21/2007 9:00:22 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Grizzled Bear
The distinction seems beyond your understanding.

And to answer that separately, in one case you have chronically ill patients that were most likely aware of the score who were given high doses of a drug to make them comfortable and may have killed them, intentionally or no, in a hospital with few resources to care for those that were left. In the other case, that of collateral damage, you have people who may or may not be in the prime of their life who may or may not even understand why they are someone's enemy being killed or maimed for life.

Which distinction should bother me the most?
150 posted on 06/21/2007 9:10:34 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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