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iMark ◴[] No.10563710[source]
I'm not entirely sure how I would define my guiding motivation in life, but I swear "do no harm" would be part of it.

I despair at those who believe otherwise.

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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[] No.10563720[source]
I'm not sure if I could keep a motivation like that if, for example, my family was killed by a drone strike.
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2. slantedview ◴[] No.10563753[source]
Point taken, though many of those who are inspired to take up arms against innocent people have no such legitimate grievance.
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3. lmz ◴[] No.10563787[source]
What if your ideology believes that you should treat those killed by drones as your own family because you share the same ideology?
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4. jules ◴[] No.10563801[source]
I would like to believe that even if my family was killed in a drone strike I would not go to a random country and kill civilians. Furthermore, I would like to see data on how many terrorists had families that were killed in drone strikes. My understanding is that the vast majority have other grievances, many of them theological.
5. iMark ◴[] No.10563814[source]
I'd try - seriously.

I don't know who came up with "an eye-for-eye and tooth-for-tooth would lead to a world of the blind and toothless" but I believe it.

I'm sure it's something I'd struggle with when the hard choice arises, but I honestly believe I'd try to keep to it.

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6. noobermin ◴[] No.10563850{3}[source]
Did the people who they bombed operate drones? AFAIK, france doesn't conduct drone warfare.

It could be, I suppose, that someone could simply hate western culture due to the acts of one nation, but that doesn't make it right. If you hate all Muslims because of the acts of few, you're most likely in the wrong. The same morality should apply to the people on the other side.

7. aplummer ◴[] No.10563859[source]
Yea but you weren't born with these ideas, you can't know how you'd be if you grew up in a different context.
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8. iMark ◴[] No.10563879{3}[source]
Nobody is born with these ideas.
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9. Ygg2 ◴[] No.10563935{3}[source]
I'm was not born with idea of harming people, but if my family ended up as "collateral" damage during a wedding I'd be in a pretty dark place. Lots of dark ideas would come to me.
10. chinhodado ◴[] No.10564250{4}[source]
I think by "born" he meant "growing up with".
11. ngneer ◴[] No.10564390[source]
Ghandi "came up with it"