[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting 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.

Except in the case of totalitarian nations such as WW II Japan, the preponderance
of evidence was that it could care less about civilian casualties. Today,
Islamofascists deliberately target civilians. So warnings about where we were
going to bomb would be ignored and probably interpreted as another sign of weakness.

Platt
 



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