Not all deaths are equal.

After the latest tragic death of an Australian soldier, the Hun's feedback page had a predictable outpouring of grief.
Don't get me wrong people. This is a tragedy, but it simply does not rank in moral terms compared to the deaths of innocent civilians in Afghanistan involving Australian troops.
Let's compare the two tragedies.
The Australian soldier was an adult whereas the five children killed were just that, children.
The Australian soldier was being paid to be in Afghanistan whereas the children were there because they had no other options.
The Australian soldier had a means to defend himself, the kids didn't.
The latter was one person, while there were multiple civilian fatalities in February.

We live in a very weird society, where a soldier's death can cause an outpouring of emotion, and the massacre of civilians by our troops gets virtually no response at all from the masses.

I wonder who will call me a traitor first?