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Originally Posted by blankall
Going door to door and killing civilian families hiding in bomb shelters is not collateral damage. Opening fire on young people at a music festival while they run for their lives is not collateral damage.
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I'm not sure why you're telling me this, this is exactly what I said.
However, there is (as I said in my very long post #1863 in this thread) a spectrum of how bad "collateral damage" is. Intentional killing of civilians is almost always going to be worse than killing civilians as a result of collateral damage, but it's not some sort of moral "get out of jail free" card, either. In some cases, where there's a sense that the Israelis are indifferent to the casualties that result from their military activities, there's a lot less difference in blameworthiness between the two types of killing of innocents. I don't know that that's been acknowledged adequately in here by the people defending Israel's right to go after Hamas in retribution for the latter's attacks.
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
What needs to be corrected? She's saying whoever was responsible did a really bad thing. Just because you read it as saying Israel, it is not. That's the great thing about waiting for facts befroe apportioning blame.
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You cannot be serious.