[Mrs. Don-o]

What I'm arguing is that if you're targeting a city as such . . .
"When has so pure an example ever happened?"

Do you think the Bishops would have made their only dogmatic moral definitions in a world-wide Ecumenical Council about things that never happened?

(Excuse me, I'm not saying this to insult you and I know you're pro-life, but that's like saying: "No woman chooses abortion." People do choose this kind of moral error, targeting innocent lives. Maybe not eagerly, gleefully, rejoicingly --- of course not. Maybe they choose it because they didn't understand the full implications. Maybe they choose it because they felt they "had no choice." But choose it they do, as a means to an end.)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

As a Catholic I respect the Councils and the Pope within their area of competence, such as faith, morals, and Church government. It is up to lay people to apply these moral principles to the real world. That is the area of competence of lay people. The clergy have no special competence at applying moral principles to questions of war and peace. I respectfully disagree with the Church on this matter.

[Petronski]

Answer the question.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Jerusalem in the days of Hadrian. Guernica market-day bombing (w/ strafing of fleeing civilians.) Carpet bombing (1938) by the Condor Legion. Phnom Penh. Coventry. Dresden. Hiroshima.

A quick list, and not comprehensive, you understand. By no means comprehensive.