• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t condone mass murder nor genocide nor any other weapon of mass destruction, even if the target is a vile government.

    Just like here in the US, there are many, many people who are in utter disgust with how the things are going yet have ZERO control or ability to change the government other than vote and speak up. I’m sure there are still some people there who fight back. My ex, a photojournalist living in East Jerusalem spent the last 25+ years doing exactly that - granted she’s Jordanian married to a Palestinian, but she lives inside Israel. Should she be targeted by a bomb?

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          4 hours ago

          I do.

          It would level a few city blocks, hurt people for around 12km.

          Much better then to let a country perform a ‘slow nuke’, right?

          Israel dropped 25 megatons of explosives on Palestine in the first month of the war. It dropped 36 megatons on Tehran in the first week of this war.

          While we hum and haw about your ex and other people that you place value on, more of the people you don’t place value on die and suffer endlessly.

          • Velypso@sh.itjust.works
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            4 hours ago

            And no one you place value on will die.

            Convenient that you would drop a bomb 65ish times more powerful than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb on them.

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              4 hours ago

              And no one you place value on will die.

              I’ve lived through a war. People you place value on die regardless.

              Convenient that you would drop a bomb 65ish times more powerful than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb on them.

              If it would stop it? Sure.

              Again, Israel has dropped around 8 “Hiroshima nuclear bombs” on Gaza alone. At some point you have to kick the dog biting you. The trolley problem is not a solved problem - this is why.

              Or let’s wring our hands and worry about your ex who has “fought” in Israel to the effect of… watching it turn into a fascist nightmare state.