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You're right. I seem to have been paraphrasing a blog post[0] I read a few years ago. [0] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d63

• toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
  That was a very interesting read. It occurred to me as I was reading that “peace” as a moral precept is ostensibly central to Christianity, right down to not defending yourself. Obviously that doesn’t describe the actual history of the religion, an probably doesn’t describe any extant group. Any group that was so unwilling to defend itself was probably destroyed or absorbed centuries ago. His descriptions really resonated with me, especially as regards the usual framing of the Israel/Palestinian conflict. Israel, so the usual rhetoric goes, is much more powerful than Hamas or the PLO, so they shouldn’t respond using that power. In essence they should suffer a death by a thousand cuts, because of how it makes people feel to see a weaker group lose to a stronger one. Of course it’s also a convenient bludgeon to rely on schoolyard logic to try and restrict people, groups, or nations from defending themselves.