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Also, this is definitely not the place to debate this, and you have to know a lot of people won't agree with you, so stop with the flamebait.
You don't even have to go as far as "America Starts Aggressive Wars" -- "Under the right conditions, America is capable of starting aggressive wars, and is more likely to do so if the cost of doing so is lowered."
Look, I get the "Politics is the Mind Killer" mantra, and I agree that it would be fruitless to start a debate about something like abortion here -- it comes down to definitions and conventions about what is moral.
But when something is actually, demonstrably, true, refusing to look at and examine the truth because it ... (read more)