Pure Poppycock
Haaretz via Abu Sinan:
[...] the number of people Israel killed is not only almost 10 times higher than the number of people Hezbollah killed, but the number of soldiers Hezbollah killed is three times higher than the number of Israeli civilians they killed, while the number of Lebanese civilians killed by Israel is about three times the number of Hezbollah fighters. So whose arms are purer? A journalist from The Guardian who is currently in Israel was shocked to hear that these figures have not been the subject of public discussion here.
What utter nonsense!
Where and when in history has the morality of a side been defined by the relative number of kills? This logic doesn't make sense, both at the individual and at the nation-state level.
Let's say a woman is assaulted by two men who start to rip off her clothes. She, in retaliation, takes out her handgun and shoots them both. They end up dead.
Number of rape victims who were killed: Zero.
Number of room-temperature rapists: Two.
Does that accrue some magical morality to the potential rapists?
Take the case of Japan in WWII. More than 1.5 million Japanese were killed in the Pacific War between 1942-45. The Americans in stark contrast lost less than 10% of that amount.
So whose arms were purer?
According to The Theory of Moral Mathematics, the Japanese were bursting with moral superiority!
There you go, I've publicly discussed just how stupid this whole talk of morality by numbers really is.
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