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Harris laid this out fairly neatly and I could not figure out Chomsky's response.  Would you agree with the descending evil ranking?

&gt; Perhaps we can rank order the callousness and cruelty here:
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&gt; 1. al-Qaeda wanted and intended to kill thousands of innocent people—and did so.
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&gt; 2. Clinton (as you imagine him to be) did not want or intend to kill thousands of innocent people. He simply wanted to destroy a valuable pharmaceutical plant. But he knew that he would be killing thousands of people, and he simply didn’t care.
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&gt; 3. Clinton (as I imagine him to be) did not want or intend to kill anyone at all, necessarily. He simply wanted to destroy what he believed to be a chemical weapons factory. But he did wind up killing innocent people, and we don’t really know how he felt about it.
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&gt; Is it safe to assume that you view these three cases, as I do, as demonstrating descending degrees of evil?



In your question above:

&gt; Say, for instance, that the goal of 9/11 had been to kill a military high-value target that was located in either of the towers, or the Pentagon (so you hit all of them to make sure), the civilian lives lost being entirely inconsequential. Would that have made it less horrendous?

Definitely.  Knowing someone is not personally trying to kill you always makes a difference.  

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