My answer is that there is no answer to these questions, and to try an predetermine one is honestly pretty macabre. In a revolution, which is by definition an act of extreme violence and domination, morality becomes secondary to winning. Deciding in the moment whether or not something is necessary is messy and ugly but sometimes that’s what had to be done.

Hypothetically, let’s say the fascists are genociding Latinos. Like straight up turn ICE camps into death camps. And let’s say we take all of the fascist leaders children hostage but they won’t negotiate because they don’t believe we will kill children. What do you do? Do you kill one? I’d say yes. What if they still refuse to negotiate, or only meet some of the demands? It’s a fucked up situation but it’s necessary.

Killing children to instill a sense of general terror, is a worthless act as well as an immoral acts. Immoral acts must only be taken when the ends justify the means, but that’s always going to be a gray area and not everyone is going to agree on what constitutes as “necessary”.