First Principles

Any reciprocal ethical system, where the demands and conditions are the same for all parties, depends on the phrasing of the principles it seeks to mediates. The Golden Rule - do unto others as you would have them do unto you - and the slightly more sophisticated Kantian Categorical Imperative - act as if your actions were general practice - are as amenable to this as the rest. Consider:

Destroy great evildoers.
Destroy those you know to be are great evildoers.
Destroy those a certain level/type of evidence proves to you are great evildoers.
Destroy those whom a certain authority declares to be great evildoers.

Now consider the ability of those in power to define the terms of the debate by using even less tranparent rules, and always in their own favor. Consider how few Orwells are among us.

In the Ruins of My Study

Despite the former window now littering the horizontal surfaces of my room, there's plenty of room on the desk and chair to unpack my cryptic sentences. Upon request.