It has generally struck me that popular culture rarely gives anything older than my father a fair hearing. I don't really understand why this should be the case, but I do think that it's related to our age's desperate desire to not understand anything.
The example which brought this to mind is the old phrase, "kill them all and let God sort them out." It is generally supposed to be said by bloodthirsty generals who care nothing for human life. And perhaps in modern times it has been said by one. Ours is an age which is fond of saying what it likes without regard to what words it uses to do it. Yet the fact remains that it is a particular bad way to express that particular sentiment.
Perhaps, rather, it is because the phrase requires a little imagination. Maybe it is because we live in an age where we even have labor-saving devices to keep us from exerting effort at imagining, but i have noticed that a great many people do not seem to have much ability to imagine.
The very first thing that one should notice in the phrase "Kill them all and let God sort them out" is that there's an assumption that some sorting must be done, the only question is who will do it. The very idea of punting the job to God presupposes most of the concepts in just war theory — that there are innocent and guilty people, that they deserve different treatment, and that it matters if they receive it.
Next, the phrase contains a rather direct admission of human fallibility as a judge of men. If men could easily and correctly sort "them" out, no one would ever suggest leaving off doing it. That anyone's brought in the subject of outsourcing means that they think that it's non-trivial.
The phrase also contains an appeal to philosophical resignation to death. It points out, if subtly, that we're all going to die. It is not introducing something new, it is merely rearranging the order of when certain events will happen.
Now, wanton slaughter is certainly evil, even when justified as indicated above, but it's not a simple case (excepting one takes it by axiom, as most moderns are inclined to do, but any case is easy to make if you assume your conclusion). For a supposedly skeptical age, ours is a remarkably thoughtless one.