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Jedi Guy

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7. Absolutely correct.

Reply to pazzyanne (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 04:37 PM

Feb 2018

But I've had people say that to my face. I like to respond with "so you'd be okay if your kid was the sacrifice on this altar of freedom, right?" That's when they start tap-dancing.

It's always easy to talk about paying the price of freedom when it's some other grieving parent paying the tab. I use that when they advocate for going to war unnecessarily, too.

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