[AndrewC]

if only because the modern populations are higher, and weapons exist that can kill hundreds of thousands at a stroke.

Interesting justification.

[js1138]

I'm not sure what you mean by justification. I happen to think that bad people do bad things and seek to justify them with whatever justification they can latch on to at the time.I do not blame ideas for the evil things that people do in thename of ideas. I do, however, favor political and religious ideas that have non-violence as their core.