Reply #88: More gory pictures don't make your point

[Tacos al Carbon]

Carpet bombing vs. laser guided bombs. If these are functionally the same because you are "just as dead" then a nuclear bomb and a sniper are the same because you are "just as dead." Hell, nukes and car accidents are the same because you are "just as dead."

The "Just as dead" argument that has been used here and elsewhere repeatedly (usually accompanied by graphic photographs irrelevent to the argument but designed to make an emotional impact) is the epitomy of intellectual laziness and muddled thinking. Let me ask you: The men who died protecting the Alamo and the people of Guernica were both killed in a military action. They are "just as dead." Is what happened to each of them morally or functionally equivalent?