(August 8, 2014 at 11:56 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: No, there is not a single acceptable number of dead. For every reason you can conceive why the murder of one innocent individual is morally atrocious, the scale on that side of the balance weighs double with each horrific casualty. The bottom line in a just war is preventing loss of innocent life as much as possible; that is where my point of view is coming from, in which I lay most of the blame on Israel, and that is arguably not a subjective issue.
I agree that the avoidance of innocent casualties plays into any moral judgement to be made. I'm not convinced the Israelis are doing so much as they claim, and I know that Hamas is acting in a manner designed to use civilians as shields. I find both sides morally repugnant.
As with most wars, there are no good or bad guys, in my opinion.
