Reply #26: Wasn't aware that this was a contest [View All]

It's a typical right wing ploy that you're worried about. If it isn't the biggest, baddest, bestest, longest, coolest, it's nothing.

You have a car, how can you be poor? (If you're not the poorest person on the planet, you're not poor to them)

The beheading was more barbaric than the torture of Iraqi prisoners. (Since there's something worse, the torture wasn't torture and we're still the good guys.)

Mommy, you don't love me. (How come my sister has one Xmas present more than me?)

It's toddler tactics to live your life in superlatives. If you're not the strongest, you're weak. If you don't have the most toys, you have nothing at all. Don't succumb to it. Even if someone somewhere is more barbaric than the prison guards, it doesn't in any way diminish the barbarity of the torture.

Either action was and is barbaric and not something that the people in the white hats do.