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The entire Western media and political class when Iran launches its strike against Israel:
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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I'll take one shitty liberal democracy before I take five shitty far-right religious dictatorships.
I don't think innocent people deserve to die just because they happen to not live in a liberal democracy. It's not like it's their choice, anyway, but even people who support their country's regime don't deserve to be killed for it.
Nobody thinks innocent people deserve to die, that's what innocent means. Don't have to deserve it to be killed incidentally, which is inevitable in war, and yet war can still be just.
As an aside, these are not distant, national, state-actor regimes. They are hyper-local partisans, non-state actors who are classified by most of the western world as terrorist organizations, doing things that most of the western world, including the ICJ, considers to be criminal: shooting 1,000 rockets a month as Israeli civilians.
Except you literally think that though. You just wrap it around some BS like "war is baaaad" or "hamas is baaaaad".
So I guess if war is bad and everything is allowed, the take your example further and say that killing Israeli civilians is "tragic but war is war".
Don't spit on my cupcake and tell me it's frosting.