• SiriusCybernetics@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Wars should be consensual. If one side doesn’t want war then that should be that. If the other pursues the world should stop ‘em. Kinda like same principle as rape. Like sex is great. Rape not so much.

    • rosymind@leminal.space
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      1 year ago

      Seriously?

      What nation goes: “Hey neighbor, you wanna kill a bunch of each other’s soldiers and use a bunch of resources and pollute the earth? Maybe we can also kill some innocent babies while bombing hospitals for funsies?”

      Wars are usually fought because one nation (or group) wants what the other has. If a side could get exactly what they want, there wouldn’t be a war over it.

      Wars are about taking: land, people, resources, revenge.

      There’s nothing consensual about it

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      What Israel is doing isn’t a war, it’s a genocide. They aren’t targeting militants, they’re targeting civilians.

      Even Hamas (the eeeevillll terrorists) have done more to minimize civilian casualties, something like 80% of the people they’ve killed were confirmed to be soldiers, the other 20% unconfirmed but fairly likely to have been combatants as well, or at a maximum accidental crossfire.

      “But Israel said-” You don’t think they miiight have been projecting a little when they said Hamas was out for civilian blood…?

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        1 year ago

        Really? The 1500 people that Hamas killed in the attack were 80% soldiers? Or is that stat over the last few decades of conflict?