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Evidence is to respected, except for where it upends personally preferred narratives. This can be, and often is, true for any human who has preferred narratives, I'm afraid.
Anyway, what you posted isn't the kind of evidence that's really the problem. The issue is one of morality and logic. Some people say "stop killing innocent people", and others agree that killing innocent people is bad, but Americans must (at least temporarily) accept the killing of brown children in a far-off country in order to reduce harms in America, and for Americans to hold their nose as they vote.
This is not how morality works, though, and it is not how logic works, either. Logically, if harming the innocent is wrong, then it is wrong to do so even as a sacrifice for the greater good of those who you live amongst. Morally, I wouldn't press a button to kill a stranger in another country to make my life better, and I wouldn't judge someone else who did that positively. Instead, these ideas are practical. It is a practical concern to ignore morality and logic. But I'm not someone who elevates the practical above the moral certainty that hurting innocent people is wrong.
Some people raise the beguiling spectre of the trolley problem, which is a shit thought experiment when used to explain real-world harm.
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