If you have ever taken a college level philosophy course then you will recall the terms “ethics” and “morality”…..and if you had a good professor there was a discussion on the terms……sorry I digress….the whole question of morality forces me to revisit my college days and the debates I had………

There is a situation that the world needs to confront, especially the US…..that is the subject of targeted assassinations……most times by drone.

The debate started by then it was halted by the events in Baltimore…….now the question should be….will we ever have this debate or is it a dead issue?

Is the targeted murder of an individual moral?

The American people seem to think that targeted assassination is okay…..at least by drone……

Nearly 75 percent of Americans approve of using drone strikes to target American citizens who have joined foreign terrorist organizations, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll released on Friday.

The poll was conducted in the days following President Barack Obama‘s public apology for a drone strike as part of a counterterrorism operation that unintentionally resulted in the deaths of American hostage Warren Weinstein and Italian hostage Giovanni Lo Porto.

The survey also found that six in 10 Americans support using drones to target terrorists in general, while only 13 percent oppose it and 24 percent “did not feel strongly either way.” Support is higher among Republicans than Democrats (72 percent to 60 percent), while independents are less decisive with 45 percent in favor and 12 percent opposed. In addition, 47 percent of Americans said, according to the poll, that it is acceptable to use drones to kill terrorists abroad if innocent Americans are at risk of being killed as well.

What do you think?  Is the targeted assassination moral?  What about the killing of a person on some religious mumbo jumbo….is this moral?

Moral is moral.  There is NO leeway in the definition.  Killing 20 to eliminate one is no where near a moral act.