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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by MagicMoonlight on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:31AM (#39928577)
I don’t think you can really compare strategic bombing of enemy cities to the holocaust. Especially since the enemy state being bombed started the war with a genocide of Jews.

Not to mention the fact that we bombed the hell out of Germany and firebombed entire cities into rubble out of principle. How can we judge? It’s war.

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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by boppo1 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:51AM (#39928700)
The dramatic difference on the gaza numbers tilts this conflict out of 'war' into 'ethnic cleansing'.
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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by throwaway6734 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:08AM (#39928814)
the dramatic difference compared to what?
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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by edgyquant on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:50PM (#39932889)
No matter how much you want that to be the case for ideological purposes, it isn’t.
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Re:'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spr... by lo_zamoyski on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:21AM (#39928904)
Just to make it clear: the firebombing of German cities full of civilians, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were gravely immoral. It doesn't matter if it had shortened the war or not (which is dubious anyhow). This is true even though the German state itself targeted civilians at a massive scale, and systematically destroyed entire cities along with its populace (most famously Warsaw). I'm going to assume that this is perfectly obvious to anyone with sufficient moral clarity (which rules out utilitarians).
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