All of this is justified because the primary stated goal of the legislation isn't to kill people.
No, in actual fact all of the examples you give are justified because they are either intended to minimize deaths, or the death are not a direct result, merely permitted to happen.
The real dividing line in what would otherwise make the actions of the U.S. government utterly immoral and unconscionable in the eyes of the people is the fact that the civilians being killed are not Americans, and thus for most Americans they have no value in the moral costs/benefit equation.
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Date: 7/4/10 06:54 (UTC)No, in actual fact all of the examples you give are justified because they are either intended to minimize deaths, or the death are not a direct result, merely permitted to happen.
The real dividing line in what would otherwise make the actions of the U.S. government utterly immoral and unconscionable in the eyes of the people is the fact that the civilians being killed are not Americans, and thus for most Americans they have no value in the moral costs/benefit equation.