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<blockquote data-quote="RastaLulz" data-source="post: 206031" data-attributes="member: 1">Personally, I don't really see it as something overly terrible, especially in relation to what we (US, UK, etc) do to them every single day in the Middle East. Since 2002, over 110,000 Iraqi civilians alone have lost their lives. While I don't know if the off-duty soldier was ever on-duty in the Middle East, there's a good chance that he was, along with the possibility of him committing similar atrocities as the men who killed him, except we consider one morally right, and the other not. I don't think that it's a good thing that this man had to lose his life, or anyone for that matter - I don't think anyone should have to lose their life like that. But you must look in the grand context of this, and what we are doing to their people. There's also the fact that these men didn't blindly target anyone, like the people in the Boston marathon did, they actually targeted someone who had personally wronged them, as oppose to a crowd of innocent bystanders.&nbsp;Perhaps I see things a bit differently, but there's more than one side to every story. I'm not trying to condone murder, as I stated above.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RastaLulz, post: 206031, member: 1"] Personally, I don't really see it as something overly terrible, especially in relation to what we (US, UK, etc) do to [I]them[/I] every single day in the Middle East. Since 2002, over 110,000 Iraqi civilians alone have lost their lives. While I don't know if the off-duty soldier was ever on-duty in the Middle East, there's a good chance that he was, along with the possibility of him committing similar atrocities as the men who killed him, except we consider one morally right, and the other not. I don't think that it's a good thing that this man had to lose his life, or anyone for that matter - I don't think anyone should have to lose their life like that. But you must look in the grand context of this, and what we are doing to [I]their[/I] people. There's also the fact that these men didn't blindly target anyone, like the people in the Boston marathon did, they actually targeted someone who had personally wronged them, as oppose to a crowd of innocent bystanders. Perhaps I see things a bit differently, but there's more than one side to every story. I'm not trying to condone murder, as I stated above. [/QUOTE]

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