In anticipation

No doubt my previous post will attract cries of "moral relativism" from those who do not understand the meaning of the term. However, it is based on a very clear moral principle, applied universally and consistently: that killing civilians is wrong. To my mind, there is no difference between someone who murders twenty in the course of killing five with a car bomb, and someone who does the same with a laser-guided missile. Those who wish to condemn this "moral equivalence" - judging acts which are in fact morally equivalent to be morally equivalent - are welcome to point out the distinction.