Well, somehow I think lying about the private fellatio and the stain on the blue dress -- a situation which should probably never have gone beyond three people -- is a LOT different thyan ltying about a dramatization that spills gore on the sand and ends thousands of lives, including those of chioldren, women, civilian bystanders and maintenance personnel. The order of magnitude is just completely incomparable. Surely this is blindingly obvious? Are we so addicted to the mechanisms of rationalization and justification and selective ignoral that we can really entertain the assertion that the two lies are of comparable weight? My Gawd.

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