QUOTE: He sounds surprisingly like one of us*:
"Nevertheless, I think this is actually a legitimate (i.e., non-rhetorical) question. If the price of crude oil were to suddenly double Monday morning the result would be widespread human suffering as waves of economic destruction wending their way through the developed world. "Blood for oil" makes a mighty bad slogan compared to, say, "blood for freedom" or something, but expending a few lives to prevent global economic collapse seems like a legitimate thing to do. So I don't know how much oil a human life is worth, but I'm confident that a human life is, in fact, worth some finite quantity of oil. Which is not to say that we've followed a wise or moral policy in the Middle East over the past year, either, but still...."
Welcome to the dark side, Matt.
*Which 'us' am I referring to? If you agree with the sentiment, I'm including you; if you think it's repellent, you're not part of the group.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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