MeisterEckhart
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John Smith wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 7:35pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 7:28pm: John Smith wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 7:26pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 7:21pm: John Smith wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 7:11pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 7:08pm: John Smith wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 7:06pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 5:15pm: John Smith wrote on Nov 2 nd, 2023 at 4:36pm: I have no problem with bombing Hamas. But bombing innocent men women anbd children under the guise of defending against Hamas is bullshit. You don't think they should be compared to nazi's , I do. They told the civilians to head south if they didn't want to get bombed, then they bombed the area the Palestinians evacuated to.
If that's not trying to exterminate them nothing is. As a person of Italian descent, I'm guessing you'd appreciate that the only way to dislodge the Italian fascists, and Il Duce, from power during WW2, was to attack Fascist forces, and risk, and cause, civilian deaths on the Italian peninsula. We're not in 1940. You don't seriously believe that 83 years changes the context of moral choices, surely. No, but it does change the realms of possibilities. Does it? How? Do you think all the billions spent on weapons development over the years have resulted in zero net benefits? How has weapons advancement resulted in fewer civilian casualties in urban warfare? Who said it had? In 1940 if you wanted to bomb a target you took a rough aim and prayed you got within a few hundred meters. Today you can drop a bomb in someone's bedroom windows from 1000kms away if you wanted to, and almost never miss. They have the technology to limit collateral damage, they just don't want to. If your enemy is shielded by civilians, never missing doesn't mean fewer civilian casualties... it could likely mean more. The Germans and Italians during WW2 established their command centres and industrial war manufactory as close to civilians as possible in the expectation that the Allies would not bomb civilian residential areas, but they did and for that reason.
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