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Originally Posted by rubecube
She's still the current VP of the United States and the nominee for president. One would think that she would still have some influence within the current administration. Pressuring her to act in her current role to influence policy changes could contribute to fewer dead Palestinian children, as could pressuring her to adopt a less pro-Israel stance as part of her campaign.
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OK, that's fine, I wasn't trying to skip ahead to the part about whether it would actually be an effective way to achieve the end goal yet. I was just trying to get us to agree on
what the goal was - that is, what we're using to measure whether this is a good action. Am I right that you're agreeing with me that in your view, that "fewer dead Palestinian children" - presumably in the near term especially though not exclusively - is the metric you'd want to use for that purpose? Because then we're speaking the same language and we can get down to arguing about whether this sort of behaviour does, in fact produce that result.
I would also say, though, only because you suggested that this was a flaw, that this is still in some sense a "cold blooded pragmatist" way of coming to a conclusion - we're essentially trying to do our best to tally up the dead and picking the action with the lower number.