[scarecrowbob]

I have a rather limited imagination, so I am having a hard time imagining a world where I kill one of my fellow humans and it doesn't cause me to question the morality of my actions.

Being aware that people are of limited imagination, I often understand that folks want to make morailty more complicated because they can't imagine themselves receiving the violence of those complicated calculations.

So my answer is "yes, if you are killing people and not questioning your actions, you are likely not a moral person."

And your question begs another question: "how does it help to complicate those kinds of moral actions".

From where I stand, a US-led death squad went and murdered some folks. That seems pretty easy to to understand, and complicating that discussion by adding in hypotheticals about "information about this operation that we simply don't have" such as (for instance) other "successful" illegal operations sounds absurd to me.

Like, really, what do we gain in making the murder of fishermen into something complex: this is clearly and simply the murder of some people by professional killers hired by the US government, and it is yet another in several million discrete actions which makes me believe that the US government and the people who support it fundamentally have no morals.

[richardfeynman]

I agree on the rather limited imagination part. It's so easy to imagine: a bad guy is for no reason trying to kill your innocent kid. you can save your kid, but to do so you must kill the bad guy. the obvious moral decision is to kill the bad guy and save your kid.