PEOPLE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE. Does putting in in huge red letters make it true if it's not?

People are as disposable as any commodity there is. Everybody dies. If they didn't, we'd overcrowd the planet even faster than we're doing now.

A civilized person does not initiate the use of force or violence. Once someone else initiates it (including using the threat of violence to control someone else's actions or obtain value from them), the initiator has opted out of civilized society, so others have no ethical restrictions on what they do to him. Legal restrictions, perhaps, but no ethical ones.

I am aware that this is not in accordance with the teachings of Jesu ben Joseph. I don't consider that important, since I suspect that more violence has been done to more innocent people - in Europe and the Americas, anyway - in the name of, and under the purported authority of, that one individual, than for all other reasons combined. Witness the various religious wars, Inquisitions, witch burnings, attempts to convert the heathen by force of arms, et cetera ad infinitum.

Peter