“What about the tens of thousands who die?”
That’s exactly what the rag-tag American soldiers fighting the world’s best army for FREEDOM during the Revolutionary War whined about. Oh, wait ... they didn’t.
Did they also push their elderly parents out to the front lines?
How about all the people who jumped on disease ridden boats to escape religious persecution, to come to an unsettled land, knowing close to half would not survive? Where would America be if they had all accepted the heavy hand of the crown because the alternative was too scary?