Doesn't Ender continue to attack Stilson and Bonzo after they are down? Stilson, yes. Bonzo, no. Bonzo was effectively dead but still standing when Ender kicke

Doesn't Ender continue to attack Stilson and Bonzo after they are down? Stilson, yes. Bonzo, no. Bonzo was effectively dead but still standing when Ender kicked him in the groin. Are we to assume that he doesn't know that doing such a thing could be lethal? Ender was 6 when he killed Stilson. I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that a 6 year old, even one of the smartest on the planet, might not have a full appreciation that kicking someone who had just attacked him might kill him or a full appreciation of what death is. Maybe the scenarios are contrived but I still maintain that Ender is an innocent in both cases because his use of force was intended to prevent serious injury to himself. He was facing superior numbers of physically stronger adversaries. If I remember correctly, isn't the military surprised that Ender uses the super-bomb against the bugger's planet? I think they intended for him to use the MDD but none of them wanted to take the moral responsibility for telling him to destroy an entire species. They wanted Xenocide without being responsible for it.