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Originally Posted by Konichiwaneko
Yeah Israel is using a lot of force here, but 6 years of small bombings is pretty substantial isn't it?
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It is substantial, but so is 18 months of near-starvation due to the closure of the borders. For that matter, 40 years of occupation, dispossession, brutalization, and settlement-building are pretty substantial too. Let's not strip away all context until the thing we are looking at stops resembling reality.
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Once force becomes lethal, you can't use things like spitballs as a analogy.
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Are you really going to be this dense? OK, fine. Someone murders your sister. You figure out that it's someone from the 8th floor of a 20-level apartment building. You decide to place an enormous bomb on that floor, killing all dozen inhabitants of the 8th floor, killing 6 others, and injuring dozens more throughout the building.
The point of either analogy is to illustrate the utterly disproportionate nature of the response. Models by necessity do not capture every aspect of reality, but the criticism that you leveled doesn't even make any sense. Are you trying to say that once your life is threatened, you can kill just as many innocent people as you please?