&gt; The man who pushes the button doesn&#x27;t know if he&#x27;s going to kill civilians and how many of them in that particular case, but the average number of civilans killed per bomb is well known. He knows that his actions will cause the death of a certain amount of innocents, and still he pushes the button in order to advance the political or military objectives of the entity he belongs to.<p>This is exactly my original point: his &quot;military objective&quot; is usually to prevent far more civilians from dying in the end.<p>&gt; Would that make them better?<p>Attacking officials of opposing force in high-precision strikes instead of civilians? Yes. It actually would make them better, yes. May be not &quot;good&quot;, but definitely better. How is this not obvious?