by Alyaa El-Kafrawy

Created on: December 05, 2009

Imagine this with me.

A family taking a tour in a foreign country; the family consists of a father, a mother and a child not more than 5 years old. His parents have been trying to have a baby for over 3 years and finally they were blessed by this son. He is five years old now, he can walk, talk and started going to school. His parents can't be more proud of him.

Their bus parked and they went off to start site seeing, when all of sudden they heard people shouting, others running, lots of noise and Bam.. the sound of a shot! And whom did it strike?! No one but the forehead of their little boy! He died right away on the scene!

His parents are now in shock. His mum crying hysterically, his dad can't even talk, they are sitting on the floor. His mum resting his little head in her lap and his dad patting his mum and don't know what to say. Among all this, the man who shot their child came in a police uniform and told them, "I am very sorry madam, you don't know how sorry I am. There were a terror suspect right behind your child and we needed to catch him before he killed INNOCENT people!

Now you tell me, is it OKAY to attack terrors suspect when innocent people might get killed too?

Will the policeman's apology bring back the little child's life?

Will the boy's parents truly find it in their hearts to forgive him?

Is the logical answer to the policeman's apology go something like this:

"Oh, we totally understand, you were just doing your job. Our boy was just at the wrong place at the wrong time"!

I don't think so.

I mean come on "we needed to catch him before he kills INNOCENT people" and whom did you kill now! A threat to mankind?

Noo, just an innocent child, one among those you are trying to protect.

An end never justifies the means.

And killing innocent people, by mistake or willingly, will never be OKAY.

Not for a terror suspect, not for a thief, not for a killer, not for anything. Nothing on this earth makes it OKAY for a person to kill a little child who did nothing.

So, my answer is No, is it never OK to attack terror suspects when innocent people may also be killed.

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