Alberto Monteiro wrote: >Matt Grimaldi wrote: > >>>Chosing a lesser evil *is* chosing >>>evil - unless there is no other way >>>out. >>> >>No. It's still choosing evil. However, >>such a choice could be understood and >>possibly even forgiven. >> >There's a jewish saying with more or less the meaning that >you can forgive evil that was done to you, but you have no >right to forgive evil that was done to someone else. > >IMHO, if there are *only* two choices, then one of them >can't be named "evil". We don't have full knowlegde, so >maybe we will chose the evil one, even when aiming at good, >but that's how the world works. > >Say, I have a machine gun, I am protecting my family, and >an armed man comes from the crowd and starts shooting at >me. I have two choices: killing him and a bunch of innocents, or >doing nothing and letting he kill me and my family. > >Real world situations usually aren't so simple. > >In this case, Israel had several options, and among them >there were doing nothing and letting the terrorist kill innocent >people, and striking the terrorist and killing a bunch of kids. >But there might be other options, so this choice between >two "evils" was still a choice of an evil. > Indeed. Would you put it past a person of this ilk to surround himself with children as protection?
Doug
