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I keep hearing "3. The defense has to be proportionate" but how does that make sense? The point is to remove Hamas from a position of power. If that happens w
by emmelaich 3y ago
I keep hearing "3. The defense has to be proportionate" but how does that make sense?
The point is to remove Hamas from a position of power. If that happens with fewer casualties, do they then continue war and kill a few more just to be "proportionate"? That makes no sense.
Also regard 2, if you genuinely feel your cause is just, the result you want is unconditional surrender.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The point is to remove Hamas from a position of power. If that happens with fewer casualties, do they then continue war and kill a few more just to be "proportionate"? Proportionality is a maximum limitation in just war theory, not a measure of minimum acceptable violence. (The same is generally true in more personal law when proportionality is a component of self-defense provisions.) > Also regard 2, if you genuinely feel your cause is just, the result you want is unconditional surrender. No, you want a resolution with acceptable conditions which align with your cause: unconditional surrender necessarily achieves that, but it is by no means generally necessary.
- ashirusnw 3y agoproportionality in laws of conflict also doesn't relate to numbers comparison at all