If Hitler threatened to butcher fifty million babies, and Stalin threatened to butcher ten million, he'd have said "hmmm... forty million saved" and picked a side. Me too.
Here's where rubber meets road. If you choose to save no babies until you can save them all, then those who might have been saved by compromise in the interim are partially your responsibility. Do you accept that responsibility?
I think you’ve worn out that hypothetical. It’s time for a new one.
Let’s say that you were having an election in your mental.health facility and you and your fellow patients had to vote for either Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer to serve as Night Watchman in your ward so the rest of you could sleep at night and try to recover from the derangement syndromes you’ve described. Now, for the questions:
Which of the two candidates do you think is most like Mitt Romney?
And, wouldn’t you like to have a third choice, even if he might not win?
No. Those who kill babies, and those who give aid and comfort to the killers of babies, are responsible for the killing of babies, not those who firmly oppose the killing of babies. Wake up.