Quote Originally Posted by DeusExMachina View Post
But isn't murder right or wrong based on perspective?

It's OK to kill enemies, but its not OK to kill innocents. Isn't that perspective?

You're saying you're rejecting perspective, so you are saying you embrace universal beliefs of right and wrong, or good and evil.

You do understand that al Qaeda believes what they are doing is right, don't you? They're not terrorists to be 'evil' because they want to be 'evil'. It's perspective.
There is a difference between murder and killing. Killing an enemy in time of war who would otherwise kill you is not murder, killing an innocent person regardless of circumstances is murder. To some extent I guess you could say that the above example relies on perspective, but the perspective should be a function of what is right or wrong determined by natural law, not the other way around.

Al Qaeda can believe whatever they want to believe, but that doesn't make it right just because they believe it. If right and wrong are determined by perspective, than anything can be justified.