02-14-2024, 02:52 PM
(02-13-2024, 09:27 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Additionally, let's say such a thing happened here in the US. The amount of upheaval to your life in every single facet of it would be tremendous, and we can move freely. That's why most people did not flee Germany during the late 20's early thirties. It's a huge step, one few are willing to make. It's much easier to convince yourself that things will eventually get better.
Let’s say you and your family live in a giant house, and across the street from you is a family of 20 people living in another giant house. Within that family of 20 people are 6 people that want to completely murder you and your family and bulldoze your house so they can build their own house where yours was.
Knowing that there’s people in this house that want to kill you and and tear down your house to put their own house in place of yours, you decide to blockade them and prevent them from moving freely across the street to your house. You don’t prevent their movement completely though, you just severely limit it.
To show their proportional way of thinking, these people decide to spend 20 years shooting over 20,000 rockets at your house, which amounts to around an impressive 1,000 rockets per year.
But luckily for you, you have an Iron Dome system installed in your yard that intercepts most of the missiles that reach your house over these 20 years. Not all of them, but most of them. Unfortunately, some of the missiles have gotten through over the years and killed your wife, your dad, and a couple cousins. Yet, you still decide not to wipe them off the face of the earth.
These people also commit about a hundred or so suicide bombings over these 20 years against your house. Not all of them are successful. But some of them are. Unfortunately, the ones that are successful have killed one of your sons, two more of your cousins and your father. But you still don’t completely wipe them off the face of the earth.
One day these people decide, "you know what, screw it. We’re gonna paratroop in on their asses and kill and rape as many of the people living in that house as we possibly can. And when they run into the bomb shelter in the basement of the house we’re gonna throw grenades in to get those cowards."
So, with their fair proportional way of thinking, they do just that.
They paratroop in on your house and while your family is watching the Superbowl they're ambushed and murdered and raped.
I say all this because I find it a bit odd when the “proportional” argument is brought up. How exactly do you proportionally respond to this? How do you proportonally respond to attempted genocide?
Let’s be real for a second here people. There have been over 20,000 rockets fired at Israel. The only reason Israel didn’t invade Gaza sooner is because they have the Iron Dome and because a lot of the missles being fired have been inaccurate. If Israel didn’t have Iron Dome, and the Palestinians had more accurate measures, they would have been pounding Israel into the ground over these last 20 years and decimating their communities.
The best they could do instead was what they did on October 7th and now they're getting what they have been asking for for 20 years. If you decided to stay there and die with Hamas, you chose that.
