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Not every leader is elected, since not every government is democratic.
Hiding military establishments under hospitals and suchlike is against the "rules", such as they are, because armed conflict will then inevitably involve civilians. If the police break down a door to apprehend a murderer, their action is not considered to be criminal damage, and journalists should be cautious in how they report civilian casualties where there is evidence that the rules have been broken by the defending side.
There?s nothing wrong with not having an opinion on something. Especially if you don?t know what the f**k you?re talking about.2:09 you're not actually legally obliged to have an opinion.
How many civilian casualties are allowed as collateral damage?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/11/2023 13:57:14How many civilian casualties are allowed as collateral damage?In modern warfare, as many as it takes to win. Of course if you are a terrorist (like Hamas, IRA, ISIS....) your primary target is civilians, not military.
Not many soldiers in the Twin Towers, Manchester Arena, the Boston Marathon.....
....which contains mostly civilians, including, quite by chance, the Vice President who was filmed attempting to help survivors.
AFAIK nobody knows what the fourth target was supposed to be.
The third team succeeded in crashing into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington County, Virginia, while the fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania following a passenger revolt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
The Nazis had a popular majority
In this clip from episode 894 of I Doubt It Podcast, Brittany Page and Jesse Dollemore discuss a recent article from the New York Times in which several voters were interviewed about the upcoming election and who they see themselves voting for - as well as why.
Democracy relies on the assumption of crowd wisdom, and the population in general are rational.
Quote from: alancalverd on 18/11/2023 15:45:13The Nazis had a popular majorityDemocracy relies on the assumption of crowd wisdom, and the population in general are rational. But this assumption isn't always true. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fygJKwgC9YNew York Times Interviewed WILDLY IGNORANT VOTERS Who MIGHT VOTE FOR TRUMP!!!QuoteIn this clip from episode 894 of I Doubt It Podcast, Brittany Page and Jesse Dollemore discuss a recent article from the New York Times in which several voters were interviewed about the upcoming election and who they see themselves voting for - as well as why.Even in the most democratic countries, not everyone is given the right to vote. Those who are regarded as lacking the capacity to make rational decision for the wellbeing of the country are generally barred from voting, like children, criminals, and people with severe mental illness. In the past, women and people of some races were not given the right to vote either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razorHanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.".Other variations of the ideaEarlier attributions to the idea go back to at least the 18th century.[12] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in the first entry of his influential epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774, first English translation 1779): "[...] Mi?verst?ndnisse und Tr?gheit machen vielleicht mehr Irrungen in der Welt als List und Bosheit. Wenigstens sind die beiden letzteren gewi? seltener." ('[...] misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps produce more wrong in the world than deceit and malice do. At any rate, the latter two are certainly rarer.') [13] Another variation appears in The Wheels of Chance (1896) by H.G. Wells:There is very little deliberate wickedness in the world. The stupidity of our selfishness gives much the same results indeed, but in the ethical laboratory it shows a different nature.[14]A similar quote is also misattributed to Napoleon.[12] Andrew Roberts, in his biography of Winston Churchill, quotes from Churchill's correspondence with King George VI in February 1943 regarding disagreements with Charles De Gaulle: "'His 'insolence ... may be founded on stupidity rather than malice.'"[15]: 771 Douglas W. Hubbard quoted Hanlon's razor and added "a clumsier but more accurate corollary ...: 'Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.'"
When the assumptions turn out to be false, we won't get the expected result from a democratic society.