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Originally Posted by caseIIclosed
It's horrific stuff. I cannot imagine still holding onto a hostage while all of this is happening. To think that there are people in Hamas who could slow the bloodshed but they refuse for reasons I cannot begin to understand.
The bloodshed is the actual goal. We have 20 years of empirical data that Hamas doesn't care about Palestinian lives at all, and purposefully puts them in harms end to achieve political ends. What is so difficult to understand?
Like I have said before, it is a big mistake for WEIRD westerners to assume other people have the same moral principles and concerns they have. They don't.
Honestly, I think genuine concern for the well-being of other people's children is a luxury belief, and in a real hot war where their own children's lives were at risk, most Westerners would get over those concerns very quick.
That is why we shouldn't give in to the far left's vision of us devolving into petty, tribal, zero-sum game thinking. We will lose so much if we do. We aren't perfect, but we actually stand for something different (hopefully better). And we need to do better to resist the far left trying to take it all away.