In recent years, some in governmental circles have used the existence of what they call "the moral equivalent of war" to justify diluting some of our most fundamental civil rights. That is a totally bogus argument.
War is when one sovereign nation officially, by an act of its government, declares war upon another sovereign nation. Then, at that point, you are at war with all the citizens of that other nation, and you can go to war against all the citizens of that nation. (At least that is the rationale used.) Certain inhumane actions are "excused" because of that declaration. But without that declaration, those same actions become blatant murder and butchery, whether or not someone claims "moral equivalency" as the logical and moral support for them.
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