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user-inactivated · 4334 days ago · link · · parent · post: [PDF] Dorner's Manifesto - Can evil be justified?
Assuming his complaints about the LAPD are all true (and given the LAPD has a reputation for just the sorts of things he accuses them of, I think that's plausible), and that he's right that they can't be addressed without violence and can be addressed with (I do not think he is), then violence towards the LAPD might be justified. I don't think violence against family members of officers could be though, for the same reason targeting civilians in war isn't.
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Aquinas never set the standards of military campaigning. Killing civilians was the preferred method of fighting your enemy for most of history, and still is in some places. Your "norm" is pretty recent and isn't really the norm, not for the U.S. and not for anyone else.