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106 sats \ 5 replies \ @bitties 22 May \ on: What Israel Is Doing to Gaza Is a Choice news
Kind of a verbal false flag, if they are defending themselves then where’s the line? Thanks for sharing.
If someone robs my house and flees back to their home, it would not be self-defense for me to blow up their whole neighborhood.
Take it out of the euphemistic realm of war and put it in a more familiar domestic context. That should make the morality easier to assess.
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"War" is a weird magic word that somehow means none of our standards of justice apply anymore.
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True
On the other hand war between two nations or tribes cannot be adjudicated in a court of law like murder or theft
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I don’t attach any moral validity to statist constructs.
Calling it “collateral damage” doesn’t change the fact that it’s the same thing as mass murder.
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