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Re:Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access t... by vkou on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:09PM (#17443453)
The airliner was overflying a warzone. Just like an airliner downed by the United States [1]. I'm not mentioning this to bring up old slights - I'm mentioning this because there is no institutional, moral, or policy reason for why such an event will not happen again, whether it's perpetrated by Russia, India, the United States, or the Free Republic of Boratistan.

Militaries will occasionally shoot at airplanes. Flying airplanes near active military deployments is dangerous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

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Re:Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access t... by craftyguy on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:08PM (#17444035)
Victim blaming much?

Commercial airliners look nothing like strategic bombers. If militaries made more of an effort to identify targets before pulling the trigger, these types of situations could be avoided. That would actually take careful consideration and a valuation of non-combatants' lives, but hey it's more fun and easier to just blow stuff up amirite

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Re:Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access t... by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:32PM (#17444250)
> If militaries made more of an effort to identify targets

The missile wasn't fired by the Russian military. Instead, Moscow gave some freedom fighters/rebels/terrorists an incredibly-powerful weapon and then failed to supervise them.

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Re:Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access t... by geoka9 on Monday July 02, 2018 @03:40PM (#17444744)
Well, the launcher was quite possibly manned by Russian military personnel. Which would make sense, since operating such a weapon requires a professional crew.
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Re:Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access t... by vkou on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:15PM (#17444095)
> If militaries made more of an effort to identify targets before pulling the trigger, these types of situations could be avoided. That would actually take careful consideration and a valuation of non-combatants' lives, but hey it's more fun and easier to just blow stuff up amirite

They don't, though. This is not a problem unique to the Russian military.

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