Not even the deaths of despised enemies will make me feel good.
I'll always see it as a tragic waste of a human life - in the case of the Taliban and Al Queda fighters, bad decisions made in a surrounding where opportunities to make good ones are few and far between.
Those of you who like seeing The Evil Enemy being destroyed and killed ought to see a human being, injured and fighting for his or her life, lose and exhale one last time.
Taking pleasure in the deaths of human beings is morally abhorrent.
Feeling relieved that a threat has been eliminated is a whole other thing. Sometimes that means, unfortunately, that there will be loss of life. But to value that lives are lost - that, to me, is a sign of a mental issue - inability to feel empathy, or put oneself in a similar situation.
I'd celebrate a threat having been eliminated, and I'd be extremely determined to see all threats eliminated - if it comes to killing, so be it.
But I'd lose my sanity and indeed my humanity the second I begun taking pleasure in the deaths of humans.
I think if you're exposed to the violent death of a human being, one you view as just that, unless you're mentally disturbed, you will not feel pleasure.
It's a spectacular series of photos, and we as humans are fascinated with violence and death - me as much as everyone. Still, I always feel like a stabbing when I view even WWII fighter gun cameras - thinking 'who was that man? How many meals has he not eaten before this? His mother, his father, his siblings and his children - this man has felt love, just as I have felt love'.
What must be done shall be done, but feeling good about killing people ain't healthy.
