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Your conclusion doesn't follow from your evidence; it is nothing but a statement of your own opinion and values.
An 82 yo nun was imprisoned for harmless civil disobedience against a war machine the likes of which the world has never known. That is, and you may quote me, "wrong".
When 1000words expressed approval of the imprisonment it was an expression of values I do indeed disapprove of.
You have gone a step further and tried to analogize her act to a movement that assassinates physicians in pursuit of a form of religious zealotry incited and exploited by political demagogues. Leaving aside for a moment the obviously odious nature of that attempt, let's look at the way it relates to the nature of the relative power demonstrated within your example.
How may people have gone to jail in the antiabortion movement for acts on the level of what the 82 y/o nun was engaged in?
To make the analogy even remotely similar you'll need to incorporate the fiction that the 82 y/o nun is part of a movement that has been promoting and abetting the assassination of key actors in the structure of the nuclear weapons systems - the best choice probably being bomber pilots, launch control officers in silos, or captians of nuclear equipped naval vessels.
If activity such as that surrounding the assassinations of abortion doctors were part of the picture for the activities against the nuclear facilities, how would the response by authority be similar and different from that which the antiabortion protestors were subject to?
Denying that society has norms that we use to characterize actions as bad and good isn't going to get you very far.
As for the "they believe they are good people too" reasoning goes, it is generally a statement I agree with; unfortunately however it applies equally to people whose behavior is considered absolutely reprehensible by 99.99999999999999 of the people.
I'm absolutely certain that the ranks of murderers, rapists, child molesters and all sorts of other monsters are filled with people who think they are "good people".
When provide an accounting of the acts involved I am able to recognize the difference between evil people who think they are good and good people who are displaying values I disagree with.
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