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I have a feeling that Snyder isn't the kind of guy to look deeply into the ethics of armed conflict when he makes a movie about a one man army of absolute ass-kickery (in slow motion), and instead relies on the convention that the good guys have some allowance for causing flimsily justifiable collateral damage.

Not that Kora necessarily qualifies as good. She's been raised as an unquestioningly obedient imperialist soldier and indoctrinated to fulfill the objective at any cost. If the plan is to blow up the dreadnought and kill everyone on board anyway, hurrying some deaths along in pursuit of that goal shouldn't provoke even a moment's doubt or even just reflection. It's what she does for a living.

I mean that’s fair, if the plan is blowing up the whole ship you’re killing them anyways and you don’t want them sounding the alarm early.