(July 30, 2014 at 12:14 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(July 29, 2014 at 9:43 pm)Cato Wrote: Would you measure response in civilian body count?Yes.. of course..WTF. That would weigh immensely in my response ESPECIALLY considering their attack poses no significant threat. Sorry to disappoint though, Arizona is not walled off.
I can't agree. Morality is not determined by numbers.
I agree with what Brian37 wrote upthread: both sides here have bloody hands, and as Rhythm and Cato point out, the only real reason Israel's are bloodier is that they have a more effective killing machine. Neither side appears to have any compunctions about killing innocent civilians, clearly; and that speaks more to their morality than any body count.
Otherwise, the question must be asked: how many innocent deaths should be tolerated before striking back?
Morality is an abstraction, body counts are concrete, and I think basing the first off the second is a form of category error.
