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I'm simply trying to get you to see that the finger that pulls the trigger on that bomb is just as responsible for who dies as the people who are trying to deflect the bombs.
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I see - well, here's a hypothetical situation for you, assuming that I'm with some fictional terrorist organization.
Let's say that I take a group of hostages. Then me and my men successfully take over, say, a chlorine plant in the middle of a city, and threaten to release the lethal gas unless we get our way. What are you going to do? Pay my ransom or release my political prisoner friends - negotiate with terrorists, knowing that you're letting yourself in for a lot more trouble down the road (because if it works others will do it and you just gave us back members), and with no guarantee I won't gas the city anyway? Are you going to send in a SWAT team to "take us out", knowing that you'll kill some hostages in the process but save the city? On whose head are those dead hostages? Mine, or yours?
There's a reason those Iraqi military facilities are built next to hospitals and temples and schools - it's because Saddam wants to use his people for human shields, so that when/if they are attacked, he can say "See! The evil West is killing our poor civilians!" The man is filth.