You Can’t Make an Omelette without Breaking a Few Eggs

Tim Lee

You Can’t Make an Omelette without Breaking a Few Eggs

…or in this case, you can’t stop the terrorists without occasionally letting a baby die while customs officials inspect his paperwork. I hope the people responsible for this spend some time in prison.

April 6, 2008 | Comments |

Sarah

Very sad.

eee_eff

The other point here is: if we had spent the money we are spending on the "War on Terror" what else could we have done with that money?

Paid for a national health insurance program (not a favorite thing here in libertarian land) of of course. So in addition to to wrongs committed (angering the rest of the world at USA, killing this baby, among the thousands more killed (for example, by the pollution from depleted uranium bullets) there is also the lost opportunity--what we could have done with that money which has now been squandered, for no good reason.

MikeT

I would rather see them hang for murder, rather than get a few years in prison. This is no less morally negligent than a police officer stopping someone carrying someone who is having a heart attack to the hospital, and insisting on writing them a parking ticket right now as opposed to after the operation. I don't think it matters that they didn't intend to kill this child--any reasonable human being would have seen at that time that such a course of action might kill the child, therefore they are utterly responsible for that child's death in every meaningful sense as a murderer on the street would be.

You Can’t Make an Omelette without Breaking a Few Eggs

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