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I don't believe you understand how modern bombs work.
by mathgradthrow 6mo ago
I don't believe you understand how modern bombs work.
- kelnos 6mo agoThey seem to work not very well, considering the number civilians they've killed in Iran.
- Windchaser 6mo agoSupposedly the issue was less bomb accuracy and more bad intel
- kergonath 6mo agoDoes it matter, at this point? If you go and tell someone who’s lost their home and half their family in a strike, "oops, it was just bad intel", do they hate you less?
- Windchaser 6mo agoOh no, if anything I think bad intel is probably worse
- kakacik 6mo agoits always that, and absolutely nobody cares
- foxglacier 6mo agoI sometimes wonder if our modern philosophy of requiring intentionality for crimes is the wrong way. You can launder intentionality be not trying too hard. If you try really weakly, it's called negligence but even that isn't as morally bad as intentionality. Perhaps we should forget about trying to read the mind of a state or criminal and only judge them by their actions. In my country, punishments for killing people with deliberate violence varies from 8 months home detention (bus driver punched a passenger in the face, knocking him out so he fell backward and cracked his head on the ground), to several decades (man grabbed scissors from the kitchen, ran to his ex girlfriend's room, and stabbed her repeatedly). Both victims are equally dead but the courts decided that the perpetrators' feelings mattered far more than what they did. Perhaps if the bus driver had been weaker and needed a weapon, he'd be in prison for 10 years instead of free? Perhaps if the ex-boyfriend had used his fists outdoors on a concrete pavement, he'd be free? Seems grossly unfair.
- mmustapic 6mo agoThe issue was starting an unnecessary war. When you did, then all the deaths are on you.
- drnick1 6mo agoOstensibly, it wasn't unnecessary to those who started it.
- Windchaser 6mo agoYeah, but… I think if you’re bombing a child’s school because of bad intel, the deaths are on you either way. We’re not going to be like “oh, this war was necessary, which means it’s no biggie that you accidentally killed two hundred children because you didn’t do your DD”
- fc417fc802 6mo agoWeird that we can afford how many hundreds of thousands per bomb but can't be bothered to pay entry level wages to manually verify each site. I'm sure the DoD has access to something even better than Google Maps.
- flipbrad 6mo agoLike this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack