[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[craig]
> It is immoral to intentionally harm or kill non-combatants, even if doing so 
> saves more lives, if it is unnecessary to do so.

[Platt] 
> Whether it would or wouldn't be "necessary" is the question. As yet, no one can > read minds or foretell the future. 

True.  My last clause should read "if the preponderance of evidence indicates it is not necessary".  My claim was that dropping the bombs on civilians should have been deemed unnecessary (based on the preponderance of evidence) because we could have warned the civilians to evacuate military targets without jeopardizing our choice of targets.
Craig