[Restorer]

Does God have a holy balancing scale that weighs intangibles like "intent" and "the greater good" or one that compares the number of innocent lives lost against the number of innocent lives saved?

I suspect he does. Unless you believe that accidentally killing German civilians while trying to stop Hitler is the moral equivalent of intentionally putting children into ovens.

William F. Buckley points out that this argument says pushing an old lady under a bus is no worse than pushing her out of the path of a bus. In both cases, you're pushing old ladies around, which is wrong.

[moog]

William F. Buckley points out that this argument says pushing an old lady under a bus is no worse than pushing her out of the path of a bus. In both cases, you're pushing old ladies around, which is wrong.

Those boy scouts need a new method.