re: #5 Aye Pod

Does anyone really need to watch the video to understand the magnitude of evil that IS represent? Just knowing the facts about what they are doing should be enough to convince anyone.

Yes, it needs to be seen. That is the primary way that humans absorb information.

You can hear about atrocities in Rwanda…but most people simply don’t believe in it viscerally unless they see it. It isn’t a moral failure or lack of empathy…it is simply how humans process data.

Seeing that video…and seeing the last moments of that mans life does not disresect him. Quite the opposite. It is the surest way to understand and empathize with him…and we owe him that. We should not, and must not turn away from this. He died fighting an enemy of the civilized world. He died, quite literally, on our behalf. Turning away from his death (and his murderers) does him no honor, in my view.