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random9749832[dead post] ◴[] No.45267646[source]
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dotancohen[dead post] ◴[] No.45267975[source]
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random9749832 ◴[] No.45268197[source]
Intentionally killing children will never be justified, everything else serves as a decoy from acknowledging this simple fact.
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dotancohen ◴[] No.45268237[source]
Israel does not intentionally kill children. Hamas does. They state it clearly.
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1. lentil_soup ◴[] No.45268406[source]
Quite a few thousand killed by Israel, or are you claiming that's not true?
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2. SilverElfin ◴[] No.45268598[source]
I wouldn’t call those intentional. Collateral damage in a defensive war against terrorists who are hiding among civilians is different from intentionally seeking to kill children as your only objective.
3. dotancohen ◴[] No.45268600[source]
I agree that thousands of children have been killed in Gaza - by both Israel and Hamas. Trying to pin all of them on Israel only encourages Hamas to kill more.
4. GoatInGrey ◴[] No.45268963[source]
Even if Israel is definitively shown to be genocidal, what the hell do you do with that? Because the result of that determination is that you now have a conflict where both sides are genocidal against the other. How do you pick a side in that scenario without implicitly supporting genocide? Do you try to determine whether Palestinian lives are worth more or less than Israeli/Jewish lives, using your own arithmetic? Try to argue that some forms of genocide aren't really genocide when you "really think about it"?

I think it's an impossible problem from an ethics perspective.