The pacifist can claim that all bombing is wrong, but no one is rationally justified in claiming that the night bomber and the day bomber are moral equals. — Leontiskos
They both intend to destroy designated targets. It is well enough known that collateral civilian damage (schools, weddings, etc) invariably occurs in bombing raids. Not only they moral equals, the same pilot is ordered to do both, as decided by his commanding officers. Infantry does it across a ditch with guns, or up close, with bayonets. It seems that everyone accepts the moral blamelessness of killing soldiers and munitions workers - even if they don't work night shift, they're housed nearby. Soldiers are just as human as civilians and civilians can be terrorists as people in uniform. Some get a kick out of killing; some do it as a duty; some go mad and do it out of that irrational, uncontrollable hatred some human develop for their victims. You see it among chicken-wranglers, too. If the babies get killed - well, like the helicopter pilot said, "Well it's their fault for bringing kids in to a battle," The babies don't go into the war zone; the war comes to them. — Vera Mont
Hopefully this information is useful to you and helps adjust your expectations. — Leontiskos
a strike on armaments factories — BitconnectCarlos
We usually have this difficulty of seeing someone or especially a country as both perpetrators and victims. For many, for some reason, it is very troubling when someone points out warcrimes or other dubious actions in an otherwise justified military action. This is because those who are typically pushing their own agenda will try to diminish the justification by pointing out the negative aspects. Yet the reality is what it is. — ssu
(A field synagogue on the front during the Continuation War in Syväri, actually very close to the German positions, who then were our brothers in arms. 4 Finnish-Jewish soldiers were given the Iron Cross, none of the accepted it.) — ssu
Is the pilot and the group of armed men morally equivalent? — BitconnectCarlos
And yet the act of humaneness is especially needed the most in a war. The killing fields is especially where you shouldn't forget basic humanity, even if you have a task to do.There is no very high moral ground in the profession of killing. — Vera Mont
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