I'm not sure what you think I mean. People fighting for liberty are fighting i.e. killing and and maiming, not things we normally consider good. Yet we — often

I'm not sure what you think I mean. People fighting for liberty are fighting i.e. killing and and maiming, not things we normally consider good. Yet we — often rightfully, I think — justify such actions. My attitude is mostly one of practiced humility: I don't presume to know when doing wrong in the name of a larger good is justified. To be a moral — and not merely a moralizing — creature is to be acutely aware of such conflicts. There are different philosophical systems of assessing the morality of action because no single one is satisfactory. I for one was not dancing in the street when Osama bin Laden, not Obama, was reported killed; I thought it a somber occasion, but I didn't think those who were celebrating morons. I don't presume to know the correct way to feel about the death of the person who planned the 9/11 attacks.