From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: My biggest problem with Star Trek (2009)   
      
   On Jan 5, 10:49 pm, Quadibloc  wrote:   
   > If someone is trying to kill me, I must stop him in order to live.   
   >   
   > If he puts innocent people in the way, so that they will die as a   
   > result of the force necessary to stop him, he is the one to blame for   
   > their deaths.   
      
   Well, that's another thing.  A friend of mine (who is only a marginal   
   Trek fan at best) loved Balance of Terror, where Kirk is in the   
   briefing room, ticking off Thomas Aquinas' rules for a Just War.  "Can   
   we engage them with a reasonable possibility of victory?"   
      
   McVeigh was wrong on many levels.  Not only in going after civilians,   
   but in that there was no threat to his life and safety (he GOT himself   
   killed, rather than defending himself), and that there was no   
   reasonable possibility of victory.  His attack, successful as it was,   
   accomplished precisely nothing.  In effect, ALL of his damage was   
   collatoral (no meaningful damage scored whatsoever).  If that's not   
   unjust, nothing is.   
      
      
   Still, war creeps people out, and with good reason.  Admiral Yamamoto   
   was certainly a legitimate target.  An enemy soldier in uniform, and   
   whose death certainly made a meaningful difference to the outcome of   
   the war. We shot down thousands of Japanese planes in that war, but   
   the idea that this wasn't a generic target, and we specifically wanted   
   the guy in this one plane makes people edgy.  They don't want war to   
   be that personal.   
      
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