RE: Is Sam Harris becoming a pariah for the anti-religious cause?
July 30, 2014 at 10:31 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2014 at 10:34 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 30, 2014 at 4:40 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: So, are you denying any moral difference between murdering a single innocent person versus massacring a 1,000 of them? I'd say the latter is 1000x worse.
Assigning moral value based on sheer numbers ignores the fact that if Hamas had the same weapons, they'd likely try to rack up the same body count. In other words, in matters of intention, the two sides are equivalent; they differ only in efficacy, not morality.
Morality happens inside a man's head.
(July 30, 2014 at 4:43 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I'd say it is worse especially when you have more control over the amount of people you're killing.
This is a fair point. I do agree that the Israeli overreaction, and that is what this is, has far too much body for the fig-leaf of "self-defense" or even "retribution" to cover.
It seems to me that more subtle, and less costly (in lives) countermeasures might be handy. But I'm no expert.
