<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">> It seems obvious that since WW1 and WW2, nuclear weapons have stopped large nations fighting all-out wars against each other</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> thus leading to a reduction in wartime deaths. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> What has replaced it is large nations picking fights with small nations with small fighting forces, thus leading to many small wars but with fewer deaths.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Is permanent war against terrorism 'better'?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you really need to ask that question? The answer is not just yes but HELL YES! The bloodiest day in the terrorism war (911) killed 2977 people. The non nuclear firebombing of Tokyo on March 9 1945 during a non-terrorist war killed at least 125,000 people, probably the bloodiest 6 hours in human history.<br>
<br>I know it's very unfashionable nowadays but I am a member of that small minority of people who believes that when the stakes are particularly high, like in matters of life and death, logic becomes more important not less; and there is nothing more logical than arithmetic. Consequently all other things being equal I believe that killing 2 people is twice as bad as killing 1 and killing 4 is twice as bad as killing 2. <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark <br></div><div class="h5"><br><br><br></div></div><br></div></div>