From the Register blog

In the ongoing puzzlement over the Church’s baffling teaching that you can’t deliberately target and incinerate children in their beds, even for a really good American cause, a reader writes:

We start with the given that it is wrong to attack and destroy a city, regardless of any potential military advantage gained thereby. Superficially, this sounds like a problem with quantity (i.e. it is wrong to destroy an entire city). But is it OK to destroy half the city? One quarter? One eighth? What is the approved ratio (if any), and the rational behind it?

I’m pretty sure the approved ratio of how many kids sleeping in their beds you are allowed to deliberately incinerate is 0 out of All the Children of the World. The rationale is “Jesus loves the little children/All the children of the world./Red and yellow, black and white/They are precious in his sight/Jesus loves the little children of the world.”

Man, that Catholic Church teaching is so complicated and abstract. You have to have a graduate degree to understand it.