I think most people take away the wrong lesson, though. Yes, they can be anyone, yes we shouldn’t willy nilly go around labeling people as sub-human.
… but when does, “some uninformed fool” become an “enemy combatant”? Far too many people think doing a “bad” thing for ANY reason is bad over humanization reasons. Yes, they’re humans, but sometimes humans deserve to die.
No one really deserves to die. Sometimes that’s the only option to stop them from harming others, or we have no capability to protect society from them in a reasonable manner. The former is usually in situations that qualify as self defense or the defense of others, the latter is more often a financial issue more dependent on the level of civilization and I would say doesn’t apply to most of the world at this point in time.
There is never a reasonable need to kill another person unless that is the only option to stop them from causing harm to others. Anything else is just lazy and/or inhumane thinking.
I think most people take away the wrong lesson, though. Yes, they can be anyone, yes we shouldn’t willy nilly go around labeling people as sub-human.
… but when does, “some uninformed fool” become an “enemy combatant”? Far too many people think doing a “bad” thing for ANY reason is bad over humanization reasons. Yes, they’re humans, but sometimes humans deserve to die.
No one really deserves to die. Sometimes that’s the only option to stop them from harming others, or we have no capability to protect society from them in a reasonable manner. The former is usually in situations that qualify as self defense or the defense of others, the latter is more often a financial issue more dependent on the level of civilization and I would say doesn’t apply to most of the world at this point in time.
There is never a reasonable need to kill another person unless that is the only option to stop them from causing harm to others. Anything else is just lazy and/or inhumane thinking.