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Of course there is "good" and "bad" killing.
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Sawing off the head of an innocent hostage is bad. Shooting someone trying to break into your home and kill your family is good. There are countless other examples. Am I being too simplistic here?

...Then, once more, the bell-like chiming sounded, and the seated, stony figure of Yarnek emerged from its cocoon of rainbows.

“You are the survivors,” the echoing voice said. “The others have run off. It would appear that evil retreats when forcibly confronted. However, you have failed to demonstrate to me any other difference between your philosophies. Your good and your evil use the same methods, achieve the same results. Do you have an explanation?”

“You established the methods and the goals,” Kirk said.

“For you to use as you chose.”

“What did you offer them if they won?”

“What they wanted most—power.”

'You offered me the lives of my crew.”

“I perceive,” Yarnak said. “You have won their lives.”

--From the Star Trek episode, “The Savage Curtain,” adapted by James Blish.

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