Reply #18: I am saying that you don't have the moral authority to decide life-death [View All]

[aaronnyc]

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Obviously, what happen at Kent State is horrendous. And you know that I wasn't saying anything defending that awful killing of four innocent protesters.

However, using your logic, they would not necessarily be innocent because they put themselves in a position where they could conceivably be harmed. Thus, using moral relativity (which I believe is a good thing), your argument - that the contractors deserved to die - is just as valid as a Freeper argument that the protesters at Kent St. deserved to die.
That was the point I was making by referring to Kent St, and I think that you knew that.

I certainly do not support this war; but I don't think that those who do support it, deserve to die. I don't think that I, nor anybody else, has the right to decide life and death matters (aside from cases of self-defense). For you to pass judgment like this, without having any substantive knowledge of what they were precisely doing in Iraq, makes your argument that much more preposterous.