spaduf'Ultimate surprise': How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed scores of Palestinians in Gaza
Literally hundreds of civilians killed to rescue 4 hostages. I don’t know what happened but I can guarantee we will be hearing more about it.
Flying SquidI don’t see a problem with the title. That’s literally what happened. It makes no judgments.
Nurse_RobotWhy are we still using the word “scores”
Because “dozens” is less than “scores?”
12 < 20.
What would be better?
Maybe hundreds?
Scores is such an 1800s word. It’s simply not used in today’s vernacular, and I’m not sure why you’re defending it.
I wasn’t defending anything. I literally asked what would be better.
Apparently asking what would be better was bad.
Why not
I don’t know, maybe for the reasons I already mentioned
I think it feels reminiscent of an explainer and that kind of gives me the ick. Maybe I’m being silly though
How many people would you be willing to let the military kill to rescue your child who had been taken hostage?
My answer is “anyone who gets in the way”
Avid AmoebaLet’s take it to an extreme. By this logic, you’d be okay with killing everyone on earth to rescue your child. This includes me and my children. This is insane.
To answer directly I wouldn’t be okay with the military killing hundreds of civilians to save anyone of my family, myself included. Not sure where my number is but it’s at least an order of magnitude lower.
I don’t see that as insane at all. Why should I put anyone else’s lives above my own children?
Congrats, you just found how terrorism is created. By violence. You just openly admitted that you will turn willfully a terrorist if the right conditions are met, e.g. someone endangers your child.
Now imagine how many Palestinian parents lost their children in this war. How do you think they feel?
And now imagine you were on the opposite side. How would you feel if someone kills your child, in the pursuit of saving their own? Would you still be so cool?
I can guarantee we will be hearing more about it.
Huh? Ratios of 300 innocents per 1 terrorists killed are now the norm and we are definitely not hearing more about. It gets buried by the next “accident” where by “accident” destroy a hospital/school/refugee camp full of people