Re: Proportions, Iraq and the war on terrorism
The causes of deaths, the motivations, and the sanction of the victims has something to do with it too. Nobody forces anyone to smoke a cigarette or drive a car.
And if you don't think there is a difference between somebody dying in a hospital bed of cancer, and somebody being shot in a robbery, then I don't know what else to say.
By your logic, since so many people die in car accidents anyway, we should pay no attention to somebody who drives his car up on a sidewalk and kills only 20 people.