If they were hesitant to drop the missile because a girl was selling bread outside the house, what if there was a civilian INSIDE the house? Let's say the daughter of the terrorists was sleeping in a bedroom.. would they refuse to drop the missile since there would be a 100% risk of civilian casualty? If so, this one life is worth more than 80.
shareThats why they got the bug to fly around and check all the other rooms first.
shareCorrection, you mean "the potential for 80", the suicide vests were never used, we don't know if they would have been used, would have worked, or if they would even make it to a target before free Kenyans destroyed both vehicles. So what you meant to say was "this 1 life is worth more than 80 potential lives"
You need to try to be accurate if your going to delve in to morality. There is no way of telling if anyone in that house would or could have killed anyone, there is only likelihood and assumption, neither of which are guarantees.
A lot of the flippant attitudes on this board make me realise why Americans can find it so easy to kill someone, they seem to think that so long as you assume the other guy is worse then you are utterly justified in killing them. "It doesn't matter that he killed zero people because simply convincing myself that he would have killed two completely justifies my killing of one, time to sleep like a baby."
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov