$46,000 For Each Death...

[kpete]

[cstanleytech]

1. So are you saying you dont think they were paid enough, paid to much or shouldnt be paid at all?

[sabrina 1]

2. What would they get if they were Americans? That is how much they should get.

Millions, and even then, it is not enough. Take the money from the war profiteers, like Cheney et al and give it all to the families of all those we have slaughtered in those countries. There is no amount of money that could possibly compensate them.

We are in other people's countries destroying their lives for no justifiable reason. We've killed so many people by now that the world no longer has any sympathy for 9/11. Over one million, and we are in the wrong places, countries that did nothing to us. And now the war drums are beating for yet another illegal invasion.

It makes me sick.

[cstanleytech]

4. Well if you want to compare it to what americans might get then you also need to compare it to

the differences in cost of living to assuming of course accuracy is the key goal rather than moral outrage.

[sabrina 1]

7. Are you saying no moral outrage is justified when civilians in a foreign country, such as ours

(9/11) are slaughtered? What right do we have to be in their country again? And if we are still using 9/11, which was done by a small band of terrorists who mostly came from Saudi Arabia, then with all the killing of civilians we've done in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, each one of those countries has the right to, not only moral outrage, but to invade this country, by our own standards, do they not? Or we somehow superior and therefore different rules apply?

By our own claims, if your civilians are killed you have a right to declare the entire world a battlefield. Now that this is the rule, doesn't everyone have the same right? We should be careful what rights we claim for ourselves, others might feel they too have the same rights.

As for figuring out how much a human life is worth, here in the US, the younger the victim the higher the compensation for some reason. Since most of the victims there were children, take that into account. Then there is the added factor of us having no right to be there in the first place. How much is that worth?

One of the Iraqis whose wife was murdered by Blackwater refused money airc. He was, rightly, insulted that the US would assume his grief and horror could be assuaged with a pay-off while the perps would not be held accountable. You know, people are no different basically no matter where they live when it comes to the death of a loved one.

[cstanleytech]

8. No, I'm not saying you cant have moral outrage, just dont ignore all of the facts when you do.

[sabrina 1]

9. The most relevant fact is that hundreds of thousands of innocent people have died, unnecessarily.

I can't think of anything more relevant than the loss of innocent lives.

[cstanleytech]

10. No argument there.

[gratuitous]

5. We have to be the luckiest empire on the face of the earth

We always pick on countries where life is cheap:

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003612.html

[RC]

6. Well, that makes it OK then.

How much do Iraqi's go for? Iranians? I bet Somalians are really cheap.
We could save a lot of money and lives if only we would just go home and leave the rest of the world alone..