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In reply to the discussion: Apparently this is the breaking point, [View all]quaker bill
(8,224 posts)not about how I would feel toward someone who killed a family member. This is a classic line of thought used against pacifists when justifying the death penalty, "how would you feel if".....
This is out of context. The Magistrate put together a great OP on this. In short, it is entirely reasonable to conclude from the readily observable evidence (two invasion, countless arrests, detainments, commando raids, air strikes, drone strikes, all over the planet) that we are at war with a non-state actor. Whether I approve of this or not does not change the fact that a war exists.
The news has been out there for a decade that if you hook up with these Al-Queda dudes you can quite possibly end up on the unfortunate end of a hellfire missle. I do not think the Al-Queda dudes are at all confused about this, they think they are at war with us and are pretty sure they will be killed if found, which is why they work at not being found.
I object to all wars, but I do not deny that they exist and that people are quite intentionally killed in them. All the deaths related to war are wrong, no one death more wrong than another, no means of killing more wrong than another. Killing a person by lethal injection after "due process" is not less wrong than killing them by drone strike. The result is the same, one is just better papered over.