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re: Moral Relativism award
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Oh, I don't know. I would given the award to Joe Nietzsche, who, like some other leftists, tries to draw an equivalence between a government causing collateral deaths during a war, and a government that marches people into gas chambers, starves them deliberately, or lines them up in droves before machine-gunning them and tipping them into trenches.

That being said, I agree with you that comparing deaths by raw numbers is certainly apples and oranges. Over ten times as many people die in car accidents each year as died in the WTC attack, yet this does not change our views on the injustice of these deaths, or the horror and anger generated by the attack. Nor, for that matter, does it make us stop driving cars, but that's another story.

About a thousand military personnel a year from various non-war causes during peacetime. But frankly, that's neither here nor there when discussing the war, although it may be useful to provide a little perspective when people try to "Vietnamize" the arguments.

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