I was just talking to a relative, who lives in France.

[Dreamer Tatum]

54. Here's how you can be so wrong:

You went to pains to say that three of twelve were innocent. This implies that the other nine were not, or at least that you assign some other status to them. Regardless of how you try to finesse it, spin it, massage it, or claim that your thinking is a level of nuanced that we heathens cannot understand, you took special pains to exclude nine manifestly innocent people from your analysis.

How do I know they are innocent? Simple: they are completely innocent of any charge that carries as punishment death by automatic gunfire. Are they not innocent of having bad taste and/or causing dismay? Probably. Your error came when you conveniently downgraded the fact that they were destroyed by automatic gunfire for whatever they did. Later you claimed that, unlike the rest of us simple folk, you seek to "understand" why people do the things they do. Somehow you forget that understanding why someone murders 12 people can proceed simultaneously with condemning them.

Let's suppose a group of religious nutballs decided to kidnap Bill Maher and other celebrities whose careers are characterized by frequent ridicule of Christianity. Let's suppose those people were all put in a room and blown to pieces while some Jethro yells, "God is Great!!! Praise the Lord!!!" Let me take a wild guess guess how nuanced your thought would be then.