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Would you like to donate £250k to the Naked Scientists for more peaceful and probably more beneficial endeavours?
But, what do they gain by launching from built-up areas?
Also, assuming you are not suicidal, would you really take a rocket launcer into the middle of a big emty space to launce missiles at an enemy with much better technology than yours?
Quote from: Bored chemist on 21/01/2009 19:53:53Also, assuming you are not suicidal, would you really take a rocket launcer into the middle of a big emty space to launce missiles at an enemy with much better technology than yours?So you think that causing the almost certain death of innocent civilians is preferable to suicide. I can't say I agree with that point of view.
The argument that it is the launching of rockets from those built-up areas that causes the death of the people in those areas only holds true if you believe that it is fair and reasonable to kill people who have not hurt you because you can't kill the people who did.
Perhaps the people launching those rockets just erroneously assumed that the Israelis had more humanity than turned out to be the case.
What is is clear beyond dispute though, is that in deciding to fire munitions in to an area mostly occupied by non-combatant civilians it would be inevitable that the majority of people killed by those munitions would be non-combatant civilians. There was nothing accidental about the deaths of the non-combatant civilians in those built-up areas.
I'm not sure that 'ironic' is really an adequate description, but this strategy is almost identical to the one used by the Nazis in WW2, in several places around the world, but notably in France, where quite a few communities of innocent civilians were summarily executed following actions by the French Resistance because the Resistance people themselves could not be caught. It was considered to be a war-crime then, although of course, 'war-crime' may have since been re-defined, just as 'torture' and 'inhumane treatment' appear to have been.