It’s like the crusading Jesuits rationalizing that it’s okay to kill you in an effort to save your souls by conversion to Christianity because if I didn’t even try, your soul is damned anyway so it doesn’t matter. It’s ratiocination run amok.
If you refuse to whack the moles because you're afraid of accidently whacking non-moles, then you'll never beat the moles.
The non-moles have a vote here too. They're not getting the moles out of their neighborhood on their own accord. If the men of Palestine can find the courage to fight an insurgency against a much better armed IDF, they can find the courage to kick Hamas out of their neighborhood with violence. It is because they are too timid and loyal to Hamas that the moles living among them (Hamas terrorists) keep getting whacked by the anti-moles (Israel), with high levels of non-moles (Palestinian civilians) getting hit as an unintended consequence. If Palestinians kick out Hamas, the bombs stop falling in their neighborhood and a real peace solution becomes a possibility. The problem is that there are too many Palestinian men licking Hamas' boots instead of killing them.
Just imagine that the hostage taker is inside of your house and shooting wildly at everyone else inside while holding the hostage and it'll make more sense. In the scenario you're thinking about, the hostage taker only poses a threat to the hostage and not to the police and other civilians around them.
No, your scenario still entails shooting the hostage. I mean, if you want to kill the hostage in an attempt to save other hostages, then say so. Because again, there are one million child hostages and washing your hands of their potential deaths isn’t the civilized thing either.
I've been balls deep in a counter-insurgency campaign and an Iraqi civil war. I speak to this stuff from experience. When the Sunnis in Iraq abandoned Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni-Shia civil war stopped and so did the insurgency campaign against the US and Iraqi government. This shit in Israel only stops when the Palestinians are willing to kick out Hamas the way Iraqi Sunnis kicked out AQI there. Until then, a terrorist group remains in control of a place that will never become an independent nation so long as said terrorist group (Hamas) remains in power over them with no Palestinian military group challenging them for power so they can negotiate a 2-state solution in good faith.
It’s like the crusading Jesuits rationalizing that it’s okay to kill you in an effort to save your souls by conversion to Christianity because if I didn’t even try, your soul is damned anyway so it doesn’t matter. It’s ratiocination run amok.
If you refuse to whack the moles because you're afraid of accidently whacking non-moles, then you'll never beat the moles.
The non-moles have a vote here too. They're not getting the moles out of their neighborhood on their own accord. If the men of Palestine can find the courage to fight an insurgency against a much better armed IDF, they can find the courage to kick Hamas out of their neighborhood with violence. It is because they are too timid and loyal to Hamas that the moles living among them (Hamas terrorists) keep getting whacked by the anti-moles (Israel), with high levels of non-moles (Palestinian civilians) getting hit as an unintended consequence. If Palestinians kick out Hamas, the bombs stop falling in their neighborhood and a real peace solution becomes a possibility. The problem is that there are too many Palestinian men licking Hamas' boots instead of killing them.
This is not a very different sentiment from shooting tue hostage to shoot the hostage taker.
Just imagine that the hostage taker is inside of your house and shooting wildly at everyone else inside while holding the hostage and it'll make more sense. In the scenario you're thinking about, the hostage taker only poses a threat to the hostage and not to the police and other civilians around them.
No, your scenario still entails shooting the hostage. I mean, if you want to kill the hostage in an attempt to save other hostages, then say so. Because again, there are one million child hostages and washing your hands of their potential deaths isn’t the civilized thing either.
I've been balls deep in a counter-insurgency campaign and an Iraqi civil war. I speak to this stuff from experience. When the Sunnis in Iraq abandoned Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni-Shia civil war stopped and so did the insurgency campaign against the US and Iraqi government. This shit in Israel only stops when the Palestinians are willing to kick out Hamas the way Iraqi Sunnis kicked out AQI there. Until then, a terrorist group remains in control of a place that will never become an independent nation so long as said terrorist group (Hamas) remains in power over them with no Palestinian military group challenging them for power so they can negotiate a 2-state solution in good faith.