Monday, February 18, 2008

A Question.

Would it be moral for a CIA operative to run a successful terrorist attack (with definite casualties) in order to be vetted into the top leadership of a major terrorist network?

Sacrificing a few to potentially save many? Catching the criminal by becoming criminal? How sacred is the law?

This is similar to Bonhoeffer's moral dilemma with regard to Hitler. Is murder still a sin if it is done to save?

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