[FreedomPoster]

Probably, but I also believe that using aerial bombing in warfare is different from using death squads and the tactics that Pinochet used. I think that's the majority of opinion, too- it's more humane to bomb during wartime than to round up innocents, falsely charge them, and kill them.

I'm not saying that all of the 3000 were innocent. But some were. And they died because of Pinochet's tactics.

So if it's a mass killing, that's somewhat antiseptic due to distance, you're OK with it. But if the killing of the innocents is up close and personal, you disagree with it?

Is that a correct summation?

[RightCenter]

Not exactly.

1. Motives are involved- aerial bombings conducted in open warfare, without deliberate targeting of civilian targets, is usually considered less morally opposable. I don't think that there are any criticisms of bombings of non-civilian targets. The a-bombs in Japan are considered a special exception.

2. Sorry I used the word "mass killing". I was referring to the sort of death squads, people running around dealing out vigilante "justice", torturing people to death, sort of thing that went around when Pinochet was in power.