this is so amazingly painful

[Tenet Nosce]

I can tell you from first hand experience the military is not running around wild murdering civilians.

I didn't mean to imply that the military is "running around wild." I will go back and change murder to kill as that is the more appropriate word choice.

Also- keep in mind I was referring to what I was seeing on social networks. It was an observation, not an argument. So therefore, your anger is somewhat misdirected.

s*** happens and people occasionally die but that's completely different then murdering those people and it's very rare.

You don't know what's going on. You are repeating stuff. If you do not know, you should not be making statements.

Those are the statistics given in the news articles. If you want to question their accuracy, that is fine. If you want to totally deny what they are saying, that's fine too.

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For example, noting that when hundreds of thousands of innocents (including children) die from the "War on Terror" it should be no different than when innocents die in our own backyard.

What should be no different?

Our reaction to it. Referring to the notion that it is more "tragic" because it happened in America, rather than in another part of the world.

Or universe?

Sure, why not. Except we don't really know about what is going on in the rest of the universe. But what few impressions I personally have lead me to believe that what we are witnessing here on earth is unusual, by universal standards.