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I think killing people is generally wrong, as everyone has the capability to do extreme bad and extreme good at any moment. I'd still kill someone if I needed to if I had reason to believe they were a threat to those around me. Morals need to be flexible, or the bad people learn common morals a society holds and exploit them.

By tapping into communications, we can gather valuable intelligence on what our enemies are doing, what they are planning, and how to counter it. Sure, we might catch civilian communications in there as well, but if they don't have any pertinent data they are promptly discarded. It's also worth noting every other nation does it, and they certainly would publish all information they gathered on civilians if it would further there cause.