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Then I have to completely disagree that all calls for slaughter are irrational and wrong. Because they're not. Wishing harm on your enemy isn't moral, so it can't be right or wrong. It's the nature of conflict. We're bound by our evolutionary nature, and conflict's a very important part of that. War is an extension of who's going to get the biggest and best piece of the brontasaurus burger and who's going to get to knock Wilma over the head and take her back to the cave. War can be justified on a moral basis, but that's almost always retrospective.
I'll agree that the call for slaughter outside of a state of warfare is morally wrong, but that's beside the point in this case. Alwari issued a call for jihad, which is by definition war. He's seen the soft American underbelly and identified it for everyone else; we have no taste for conflict outside of our safe, 44-minute, 22 episode a year lives.
I'm not boxing you into a corner - you've done that to yourself by painting an absolute line and saying "anyone who says this is crazy". I find that impossible to accept.
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