@FUMN: I recognize the other person's opinion… how could I call it ignorant if I did not? The simple act of having an opinion does not make it informed, we had (perhaps still have) thousands of people all over the United States proving that point pretty recently.
I am very amused that anything I bring up that shows how shallow and baseless your opinion is you consider to be "nit picking". Failing to adhere to intellectual honesty in your postings might be a "nit" to you, but for the rest of us intellectual honesty is pretty important.
Human life is a number game, claiming anything else is a bit silly. I could be killed tomorrow by any number of things for any number of reasons. It is unfortunate but it is a simple fact of life. I make no claims that those who were killed were not "real people" to someone. They are as real to me as I would be to them if I died tomorrow.
Wow… so you're bringing morality into this as a factor? That's fine, but if we take your "it's immoral to risk those peoples lives" argument then we could easily justify everything that went on over there because it was very immoral to allow those people to be put at risk by their dictator. All the justification we'd need is that fewer people will die unjustly in a war than would have died unjustly at the hands of their leaders. It is immoral for us to witness someone being brutally beaten/raped/killed and not assist them.
Every news outlet is run by people with agendas… or are you under the impression that all our major sources of news are non-profit organizations…?
You don't want any companies with blood on their hands in the name of profit to exist? Well that's an interesting opinion. I don't know why you'd think life would be better without airplanes, cars, nice tasting food, domestic security companies, banks, and any number of other businesses that take calculated risks that the benefits of their product outweigh the consequences measured in human lives.
I'll stop calling you ignorant just as soon as you develop an informed opinion on this matter.
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