Reply #11: Answer

[aneerkoinos]

"The question is: how do we pay for the immoral act in which we have engaged?"

The aswer is: cure yourself from the disease called "American way of life" and stop spreading it and making other suffer from it.

When you are sick in the mind and body, you have no moral obligation to help others, you simply can't. Your only obligation is to get well and stop spreading the sickness. And Bush is not the cause of the disease, just symptom.

If you think you can "pay for" an immoral act (I think you mean causing suffering), you can't, thinking that way is part of the disease. There is no cosmic judge you can pay to buy pure conscience and go back to feeling good about the innocent yourself that you never were, that nobody ever was.