re: #17 Obdicut

Our involvement in WWII caused a lot of pacifism and anti-war sentiment. Especially among people like Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, etc. But I think it was a just and necessary war. I would also make the same case for the war in Afghanistan. I don’t think there were any realistic alternatives. I think PZ is verging too close to moral equivalence. The Taliban and Al Qaeda are really bad people and Americans cheering the deaths of terrorists is not morally equivalent to Palestinians celebrating the 9-11 attacks by passing out candy. His central argument is there are no shades of grey and all deaths are equal. I just can’t buy into that.