rs said: (re blowing up building w/daycare center) Blake, OTOH, would have done his research. And he would have felt personally guilty about killing 19 children under the age of 6.
I'm not sure he would have researched enough to know that, but hopefully, yes. Once he had, it would have changed the way he planned. He might have chosen a different target. Or, if he needed to attack that place for a very serious reason (such as getting decoding crystals), he would have assigned one group to evacuate the children or something. He would not have accepted them as direct casualties of his actions. In taking out Star One, there was a risk lives would be lost, but there was no way of predicting where or how. If natural disasters happened, hopefully emergency measures could be taken to prevent losses. Traffic control failures might kill more. In all probabilty the main loss of life would be in the uprisings Blake was counting on to throw off the shackles of the Federation. And with no central computer to coordinate the Federation's military, the major loss of life would be among adult combatants, not children. Or so Blake must have hoped. I don't really like the Star One decision; it didn't bring down the Federation so if not for the Andromedan menace (which they had not foreseen), it would seem to have been a mistake. But that's 20-20 hindsight.