Bombing Civilians Debate
This cluster centers on heated discussions about the ethics and practices of bombing civilians in warfare, debating deliberate targeting versus collateral damage, with references to historical events like WWII bombings and modern conflicts involving cluster bombs and urban strikes.
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Nah bro they target civilians and blow them up en masse. If you had to pick the lesser of two evils, the answer is pretty clear I think.
I think you should check out how bombing was conducted before the introduction of the smart bomb. We used to intentionally and systematically destroy entire civilian populations.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World...
Woah, a case for bombing civilians on Hacker News. How far we’ve come!
If that startup is killing civillians, absolutely.
so dropping cluster bombs on civilian population centers is ok if you didn’t sign an agreement not to?
Who cares about dogfight when you only bombing of civilians.
The idea that you can bomb military targets and magically keep civilians safe is terribly naive.
The people we drop bombs on are citizens of somewhere too.
Neither is not bombing civilians, yet here we are.
I guess the similarity falls short of justifying bombing civilians in another country... oh, wait.