If read all together it sounds like something a Bond villain would say in some low rent, meat themed James Bond film.
Meat is murder, Mr Ribs…
I didn’t say we did. I, in fact, agreed we didn’t. I asked what the numbers would have to be in order for them to not be a moral tragedy, and you responded that “it doesn’t matter because we don’t have the numbers.”
I already agreed we didn’t have the numbers. We can estimate, but that we don’t have them is certainly a fact. I’m agreeing with you.
So, my question was, absent any sure numbers, what would be an acceptable number of your own citizens to mow down at a protest? And then, do you think it likely that number was exceeded?
Well, the official number from the Iranian government is a little over three thousand. Is that an acceptable number of your own citizens to mow down during a protest?
If so, where is the cutoff where you have mowed down enough of your own citizens where it’s unacceptable?
If not, why does it even matter, as we both agree they wontonly killed an unacceptable number of their own citizens, whether than number is three thousand or forty thousand?
I haven’t seen any version of the Israeli settler colonialism stuff that included seizing territory in Iran. Though that’s neither here nor there.
I expect Iran to defend itself, certainly. Defending itself shouldn’t extend to attempting to bomb Jerusalem, though I suspect it will. But it certainly extends to certain countermeasures to prevent continued hostilities.
In an ideal world, what I would like to see Iran do is overthrow the current regime internally and adopt a new more liberal, western government that treats women and LGBT people as equal citizens and doesn’t sponsor terrorist groups throughout the Middle East.