
Originally Posted by
Gnostic Yevon
This is the moral difference. It's wrong to kill, no matter what. However it's less wrong when it's done in self defense or done to defend someone else. And the wrong of killing someone would become downright insignificant if you speak of killing a mass murderer and thus saving a million lives. It's only when you compare the action to others that the morality of an action can be determined. So the choice is still the same -- let more people die, or get the information even if it means violating Geneva. Those are the only two. There's no magical third option where we don't get the info and the insurgency drops flowers at our feet.