re: Issues tangential to the discussion of fundamentalism
Frank wrote: "When it comes to my family and their safety, I part with questions of morality. Answer this question yourself when you have children and grand children with a long future ahead of them. This does not mean that we shouldn't choose the least immoral of various immoral solutions and try to balance the immorality with moral acheivements."
I can't help but disagree in the highest terms possible, but since that was a moral argument and not a factual argument. Well, I'm not sure truth can be settled. We don't have the right to drag arbitrary third worl folks into our fight. Especially not at the point of a gun.