Richard Stallman on Nostr: [5/6] … resort. And even when fighting is necessary, we should strive to keep ...
[5/6] … resort. And even when fighting is necessary, we should strive to keep civilian casualties down to a proportionate level. This is why, rather than being especially outraged at the pager attack and denouncing it as egregious, I take the opposite view: the pager attack is the proportionate exception which highlights Israel's usual disregard for the lives of civilians. HAMAS and Hezbollah also often disregard proportionality when they attack, but -another irony- their missile attacks …
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