The Ethics of Future Warfare

[The Comrade]

careful he's going to call you a benghazi truther

[eynon81]

40,000 is a big ole' number when you consider we probably shouldn't have invaded in the first place.

context matters, something like 70,000 French civilians were killed in the process of removing zee Germans from their soil. (you're welcome)

we're pretty much in a position where we're fighting a bunch of big indian wars all over the world, which means, lots of civilians are gonna die.

[Indy]

[Philly]

Either Indy doesn't get that 37,000 is less than 100,000, or he doesn't know what "better" means, or he thinks more civilian casualties would e preferable to less.

[Dylan]

[The Comrade]

rel·a·tive
ˈrelətiv/
adjective
adjective: relative

1.
considered in relation or in proportion to something else.
"the relative effectiveness of the various mechanisms is not known"
synonyms: comparative, respective, comparable, correlative, parallel, corresponding More


for indy

[eynon81]

[Indy]

[John Galt]

no one is saying that 37K deaths is great and everything is happy. no one even was saying 37K was worth it. professor was just pointing out that it is lower than previous wars. and so the term "better" is appropriate.

if you got a F on a test where you had to match words with definitions by getting none right, and then you memorized what "relative" meant and took the test again, and got 1/1000 right, YOU DID BETTER even if you don't grok what better means

[Professor]