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2 years ago

in A Question of perspective on It looks Obvious
Ingrid - yeh, that'd be fun, but, alas, I live in cappy ol' Engerland. Well done on getting into Maariv - that should boost participation for sure.

Rogel - Thankee. Just in case you didn't know, I replied to your post on my blog for length reasons (I'm just checking since none of my comments are showing up here :S )

2 years ago

in Proportionate response on It looks Obvious
It's true that 'proportionate' is not clear and completely defined. It isn't as fuzzy as you make out, though. So, for example, regarding civilian casualties...'Targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure os OK as long as there is no other way and as long as the military advantage to the attacker outweighs the suffering caused to the civilians being attacked'. The oweness is on the attacker - in this case, Israel - to show that their actions met those conditions.

Of course - they didn't. Trying to resuce a soldier is all well and good, but it doesn't justify (for example) destroying a power plant. That's disproportionate.


Nice site, by the way :)
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