Yeah, but that is what it is. Being born in certain parts of the world, in certain cultures often also comes with baggage, such as negative opinions about gays, sexist ideals, feelings (and laws) of religious supremacy and more. So although they're people, they're not people that I want to defend. A casualty in the west is worse than a casualty over there and so I'd prefer the war to be fought there, than it be fought here. Humanizing those people doesn't help us win the war.

Do you not agree that Islamic terrorists believing that non-Muslim lives are unimportant and dispensible compared to Muslims is a bad thing? If so, you're being hypocriticial as advocating in essence the exact same thing.

OK, so is Hitlers life equal to Ghandhis? 

No, I'm advocating the opposite. Nothing hypocritical as what I'm advocating for supports self preservation and is in line with my liberal values. Any judgmenent of a groups value based on its religious makeup is wrong - and that is what those muslims are advocating for. I'm making judgement based on a confluence of cultural factors that ultimately boils down to tolerance and equality. If you're not for that, which we in the west are to a much greater degree, then your society is of less value and as a result so are your people. 

Don't equate individuals to a population in general as though that validates your perspective because it certainly doesn't. 

No, I'm advocating the opposite. Nothing hypocritical as what I'm advocating for supports self preservation and is in line with my liberal values. Any judgmenent of a groups value based on its religious makeup is wrong - and that is what those muslims are advocating for. I'm making judgement based on a confluence of cultural factors that ultimately boils down to tolerance and equality. If you're not for that, which we in the west are to a much greater degree, then your society is of less value and as a result so are your people. 

You can absolutely do that. Societies have major overarching differences in cultural beliefs and studies and polling show that. Two people being equal, if one of them believes gays should be free to marry and the other believes they should be jailed, I'm going to say the first person is better than the next. As a society these beliefs are expressed in laws and cultural practices. A society which believes gays should be hanged is less deserving of life than one that doesnt.

What the hell goes through your head? How can you justify the murder of innocents? You talk about war zones and collateral damage like we are not talking about humans rather inanimate or worthless objects. When things get destroyed that's collateral damage but when innocent humans die that's not. But then you forget about USA drone strikes in Pakistan which is not a war zone and the USA has no damn business being in the airfield of a sovereign nation and no one asked them to be. Then you talk about Syria as if the USA needs to be there when its clearly not the case. You say if USA does nothing then Daesh influence will spread but forget that a syrian army exists and a leader and the USA is being a thorn in its side instead of helping it fight terrorists and actively wants to kill the leader which will further destabilize Syria but USA doesn't care. They are not wanted nor needed there. The USA also supports the terrorists in Syria but calls them rebels. There are attacks by rebels which are war crimes but the USA and its media cover it up by saying Assad's government did it just like back in Iraq when the UN told the world there were no WMDs in Iraq but  USA invaded anyway without a care for truth or reality. Now look at Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan as compared to 30-40 years ago when USA hadn't even thought about attacking them.You say civilians have to die in a war but it looks like you feel nothing when each month USA kills by the thousands many civilians but are all over the web tweeting about an attack in France that killed less than a hundred people. One idiot even talked about civilians not being civilians but terrorists in disguise. So, what goes through your head? How much brainwashed are you?

You can absolutely do that. Societies have major overarching differences in cultural beliefs and studies and polling show that. Two people being equal, if one of them believes gays should be free to marry and the other believes they should be jailed, I'm going to say the first person is better than the next. As a society these beliefs are expressed in laws and cultural practices. A society which believes gays should be hanged is less deserving of life than one that doesnt.