Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.

[Astreja]

Both are absolutely unacceptable responses.  Maiming is never okay.  Ever.  It doesn't fucking matter what scripture authorizes it - in all cases, it is a violation of the criminal's human rights.

But Astrega, the whole world -especially westerm countries- are exporting "maiming devices" called live ammunition; and deploy them to fighting jets and landmines, and crossed the level of hypocrisy to sell them for billions of Dollars to dictators who use maiming + butchery towards millions of innocent people, like the "maiming war of Yemen" that the west + Saudi Arabia are waging now.

Calling maiming with other names like "tactical airstrike" remains what it is: a maiming strike.

I'm not happy about that either, Winter.  At some point we have to simply say "This is bad, and it doesn't matter who's doing it, and it doesn't matter how they're trying to justify it."  If an action is wrong, it's wrong in all contexts.