• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So if a bank robber took a cashier as a hostage, you’d suggest to just shoot the hostage, to get to the bank robber?

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      8 months ago

      Comparing actions being taken in a war being fought over an area larger than that of Delaware to that of a bank robbery is too reductionist to give any sort of meaningful response to.

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        8 months ago

        I was mainly focusing on the validity of taking out hostages in order to get to the bad guys.

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          8 months ago

          War fucking sucks, and sometimes the only way to save 10,000 lives is to end 100. Every country has limited resources to deal with hostage situations in active warzones.

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            8 months ago

            The thing though is, that this is not the case with IDF. They have plenty resources, enough to be selling to the rest of the world actually, and they are not preventing an impending attack. It seems like their motives are somewhere else

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            8 months ago

            Hahaha isreali loses are less than 2000 by all the numbers I’ve found, Palestinians dead 10000+, Palestinians injured 30000.

            You’re correct, scale matters.