Remix.run Logo
avadodin 2 hours ago

It's not even in the same ballpark.

0.03% of Iranians vs 3% of Gazans.

I think we can all agree that Iran shouldn't be massacring its own nationals even if as the government claims they are foreign-influenced, but don't use this as a platform to push an agenda that harms even your own cause.

high_na_euv 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>It's not even in the same ballpark.

>0.03% of Iranians vs 3% of Gazans.

"One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"

avadodin an hour ago | parent [-]

I am saying the opposite.

Sure, they all had moms and dads and to their families they were likely important and missed but there is a World of difference to the people left behind between some activist no one knows getting murdered by the state and their own families and acquaintances getting mowed down while they themselves are living precariously.

This moral absolutism is relativism in disguise.

edit: sorry, I shouldn't have replied to a political post however egregious. I will not engage further.

midlander 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You treating human life as less worthy if a population has more of them?

It’s 30k in a week - all civilians vs 60k in 2 years - in a mixture of civilians and combatants.

idop 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Murdering 30,000 innocent people in three days of protests is indeed not in the ballpark of killing 30,000 militants in two years of a war, you're absolutely right.

noduerme an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Let me get this straight: If 60,000 people are killed in a war in 3 years, it's a genocide, but if 30,000 protesters are killed in 2 days, it's not? Not that either one is a genocide, but you're saying the difference is what percentage of the population died? Therefore, 10 people in Luxembourg are equal to 200 people in China?

Gibbon1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There is a legal principal that comes into play when people are locked up for contempt of court. You can be locked up indefinitely or until the issue is moot. The the reasoning behind that is you hole the keys to your own cell.

The Israeli's demand was returning the hostages and the bodies of the people Hamas murdered. Hamas refused to do that for a year and a half.