Tell ya what, Lindy.
When American forces take bound non-combatant prisoners, aid workers or truck drivers, tie them to a 500 lb. bomb, and detonate it while filming it for their loved ones, you get back to me.
The complete atrophying of the ability to make reasoned moral judgments by some people still amazes me. Motive? Intent? Volition? None of it makes any difference to you.
To you, the cop accidentally shooting a hostage during a firefight at a bank holdup is exactly the same as the bank robber putting a gun to the forehead of the hostage and blowing his brains across a wall.
Hey, he's dead either way right?
Pure perceptual mentality at work.