[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Platt Holden]

> [Arlo]
> Arlo asked, "So, if you were ordered to shoot dead a little girl on the
> street... in battle... , you'd aim and fire, no qualms or questions
> asked?" I didn't say "shoot a dead girl", I said "shoot dead a little
> girl". If you were ordered to do this in battle, would you?

"Shoot dead?" I assume in war you shoot to kill, to "shoot dead" being 
redundant. Anyway, if ordered, sure. Little girls have been known to 
throw hand grenades or otherwise threaten soldiers. In fact,   
Islamofascists use children as suicide bombers.   

> 
> [Platt]
> Furthermore, Arlo admitted he would rather face a firing squad than drop
> the A-bomb on Hiroshima, thus shortening the war which, in spite of the
> fact that the war ended shortly thereafter, he called propaganda. You
> consider that a rational response?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Certainly. Because the premise, that it "saved millions of lives", is
> incorrect, or at the very best highly disputable. That Arlo would refuse
> an order to murder a hundred thousand innocent people is something he is
> proud of. That you would so willingly do it, is something I'd be ashamed
> of. But, hey, that's just me.

"Incorrect" and "highly disputable" my foot. The Japs were prepared to 
defend their homeland to the last man, woman and child. Thank God there 
were people on our side, unlike Arlo, who were willing to defeat the 
enemy at the loss of as few lives as possible.