>>>Killing people and destroying their infrastructure/possessions simply is not a reasonable or sensible cost/benefits equation. Period. No ifs, and, or buts.
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>>Killing a hundred thousand people so billions can live lives whose potential isn't squelched by mad despots seems like a sensible cost/benefit equation to me.
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>The radical Jihadists feel exactly the same way.
So they're both morally equivalent?
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