• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Are you arguing that Israel should kill children?

      That’s not how I read it.

      My interpretation is that Israel shouldn’t be creating more orphans who will have a lifelong desire for vengeance.

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        5 months ago

        I fully agree, but doesn’t this argument go the other way as well, when children grow up to Hamas attacking cities since decades?

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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          Of course it does. But I think what matters is the magnitudes and what do every one of those children have to lose. If you want security, you have to move to fewer and fewer children having this experience and to more of them having something to lose. Hamas made this equation markedly worse on Oct 7. Israel’s leadership made way worse thereafter.