Here is a slight modification to consider: Skin in the game. If we separate motivation and act as completely as Card suggests, we should separate motivation

Here is a slight modification to consider: Skin in the game. If we separate motivation and act as completely as Card suggests, we should separate motivation and personal consequences completely as well. This would effectively prevent hypocrites and those without pure motivation rationalizing their actions. Card's 'martial philosophy' mixes western legal tradition (where intention is important) and martial tradition and moral philosophy in a way that perverts both. Hyrum Graff and bunch of others should have been tried, convicted and executed. Give them hero's funeral by all means. They should have gone into the project knowing for sure that nobody of them will come out of it alive. Horrible act for good reasons should should always be a personal sacrifice. In many old classical stories in the Chinese and other East Asian cultures the same dilemma would be solved just like this. True warrior should have no desire to kill and should act selflessly. But he should face the consequences under strict legalist tradition (Faija).