A War Designed To Be Perpetually Inconclusive
Is Not Always Moral
Posted By: Hazymac, 11/1/2023 11:51:25 AM
One of the most poorly informed debates in the media coverage of war is the concept of "proportionality." The average person understands it as a kind of transaction. If X kills N citizens of Y, then Y can fairly retaliate by killing N*(1+i) citizens of X, i being a penalty. But what it really means according to the Red Cross is it prohibits attacks against military objectives which are “expected to cause incidental loss of ... civilian objects ... which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.” It might be restated this way: disproportionate acts are operations of war that are not worth it.
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