Informed Consent

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You know as well as I do that if Hamas was successful every time it tried to murder an Israeli, those death tolls would be much much closer.

    Are you saying that if Israel let more of its civilians die, it would be less morally culpable?

    • x86x87
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      1 year ago

      I cannot imagine success as killing someone. Also, you are speculating on what might happen with people’s lives.

      IMHO civilians dying in any circumstances is dumb af. This includes them directly dying as a result of war and indirectly dying as a result of economic and political maneuvers, blocades, shitty things.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        My point is that there is a difference between attacking a building that is shooting rockets at your civilians and slaughtering 200 civilians at a festival, taking 130 hostages, raping women and parading their naked bodies through the streets, and decapitating people.

        Israel is not in any sense perfect, but it least attempts to minimize civilian casualties. The IDF is not roaming through the West Bank murdering every Palestinian it sees, whereas that’s exactly what Hamas was doing two days ago.

        • x86x87
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          1 year ago

          We are mostly saying the same thing. There is a reason why what happened happened and as far as I am concerned both sides are terrorists. Is raping women any worse than imposing a blocade that literally equals people fucking starving to death? Yes, it’s shocking. Genocide is genocide no mater how you slice it.