sun_the_second
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Ok. If Iran thinks taking American hostages is sufficient deterrence from the US doing whatever it is you're accusing US of doing here, they're welcome to try that. And if I'm the US in this scenario and I don't like that my citizens are being taken as hostages, I'm going to make it clear that instead of being deterred from acting against them, I'd rather act against them in deterrence of taking American hostages.
I don't know what sort of proportionality you're talking about here. Others at least made the argument that you don't want the shoe to be on the other foot after you get too disproportionate - which is a reasonable argument (although it's too early to say whether USA miscalculated on this vs. Iran). But I don't see what kind of moral argument against disproportionality is there supposed to be between sovereign states. States don't have morality even if the underlying people do.
If you want a personal perspective then I consider taking hostages in response to funding a leader of your country that you don't like an escalation.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
14hr ago
It's up to them to decide what they should have done. I do not care, especially since you haven't specified what kind of fucking preceded Iran taking hostages.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
15hr ago
If I wanted a country to never again take my citizens as hostages I would've killed even more. That's what wanting someone to never fuck with you and yours means. Not essays or vibes.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
My bottle is more like 500ml and I usually don't finish it during the workout. It seems like I get a lot less sweaty than the soaked-wifebeater kind of guys you can see at the gym. Don't know if I'm not giving it my all or that's just how my body works.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
So we're reducing this to "everyone I don't care about". Because this is where your previously stated standard of "whoever committed a violent offense" is suddenly reversed.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
I guess I'm not really literate then. Of course, I assume this means that you in turn can read eg. Dostoevsky in the original Russian editions without problems, right? Afterall, by your measure anything else would be "bowdlerization".
As far as I'm aware, the only changes to the original Dostoevsky (and contemporary authors) that are present in the editions you can read now are grammar changes - that is, updating the 19th century spelling, full of i's and ъ's, to the grammar USSR and modern Russia share.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
What does your tiny bit of respect matter to them compared to not being punished by the laws they believe are unjust?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
6d ago
I don't think an interstellar superorganism that can only send information (and not resources, people, etc) between its parts at reasonable speed is going to remain a single superorganism for long (and one that can't even send information without a human lifetime of lag won't be one at all).
Space is the hope of liberty-minded people because it's bloody damn inconvenient to reach you there.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
6d ago
most of the people at the music festival attacked by Hamas were Israeli reservists, and therefore combatants. (It is a truth universally acknowledged by any society which still understands war that combatants don't become civilians just because they aren't currently attacking.)
You mean that in a country with universal conscription, everyone is a combatant until officially discharged in their 60s? Well, that would certainly be convenient for the attacker.
By that standard, are we conceding that Israelis shooting anyone on the Palestinian side of the fence who could possibly hold a rifle or an explosive device is shooting combatants?
I suppose so. If you own capital, then you can pay people to make pretty much every decision on how that capital is managed, how the risks are hedged, et cetera. At this point, the only thing you're actually doing is allowing the money to move - which is not, strictly speaking, labor. The owner does not have to be the manager.
There is risk, and the mainstream theory of value rewards those who dare to risk and do so profitably. However, I don't see how risk debunks the labor theory of value. It's plainly not labor to risk what you own.
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