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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism, Inc. (Who is moral?)
Message-ID: <271@umich.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 00:37:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: umich.271
Posted: Mon Oct 14 00:37:44 1985
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References: <1065@ubc-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <1065> mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
>...I do not approve of murder of innocent civilians by an
>individual or a group of people but I do not disapprove of it any more
>than I disapprove of the same act by a government...

Same here.  But I dispprove of it more when innocent civilians are targeted
than when they are killed due to targeting combatants (though if the 
attackers have no regard for the number of incidental civilian deaths, then
the difference becomes quite small).  In the "total war" concept, civilians
are the targets; but often governments try to avoid killing civilians, and
will only risk killing innocents incidentally when doing so will avoid the
deaths of even more innocents (usually its own people).

--Paul V Torek						torek@umich