Years ago, I read a rather graphic account of the sacrifice of babies in the ancient Near East. I wish I had not read it. I find it disturbing at this moment even though I read it decades ago.

The sacrifice of babies like the little guy you see pictured above, is shocking to me. It leads me to wonder how many babies were fried in the atomic blasts in Japan and in the fire bombing on many Japanese and German cities. I understand that the nuclear attacks eliminated the need for the bloodbath that would have been the invasion  of the Japanese home islands. Which was worse, nuclear bombs or the invasion? I have no idea, but I can say that the choice is between two horrific alternatives.

My point is this. To me, any discussion of morality or ethics that fails to begin with the moral horror that is war and the moral horror of child abuse is not worth reading. I feel so outraged about war that I am going to write something I may not believe. What I am going to write is that nothing about sexuality can possibly be as obscene as war.