Comment by ignoramous

4 days ago

> perfectly lawful

Are you a lawyer / expert in conflicts? If not, curious how you arrived at this conclusion.

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ignoramous

No, I am not a lawyer. Does that preclude my having an opinion on the value and legality of a military strike? Anyway it seems to me that it was:

  - highly discriminatory

    - only Hezbollah commanders received these devices

    - it's an essential piece of military C2 gear so you'd expect they would keep possession of them at all times

    - the explosive was small enough to mitigate any risk to bystanders

  - targeted at combatants

  - likely to achieve (and in fact did achieve) military effects at least proportional to any collateral damage

Passes the smell test to me.

Would you still have a bone to pick with my credentials if I said that I thought the Dresden firebombings were not brilliant and not perfectly legal? Or the same about US military strikes on suspected drug trafficking vessels?

KingMob 4 days ago

> No, I am not a lawyer. Does that preclude my having an opinion on the [...] legality of a military strike?
Hacker News arrogance in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen.
Feel free to also weigh in on Napoleonic currency reform, the proportion of Siberian anime fans, DNA methylation rates of Tyrannosaurs, and anything else you know nothing about.
Or maybe I just skipped CS456: "How To Know Everything About Non-Tech Topics" in college.
ignoramous 4 days ago
> Passes the smell test to me
Gotcha. Thanks.
> Does that preclude my having an opinion on the value and legality of a military strike?
Words mean things. "Perfectly lawful" means just that? And so, I was curious.
> Would you still have a bone to pick with my credentials if I said that I thought the Dresden firebombings
Felt the need to know whether I was mistaking an arm-chair opinion for an expert opinion, is all.
- SomeUserName432 4 days ago
  
  > Words mean things. "Perfectly lawful" means just that? And so, I was curious.
  He did prefix it with "I think", highlighting that "this is my opinion / my interpretation", not that he is issuing a ruling as a judge in an international court.
  
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tstrimple 4 days ago

As long as it's other people's children being killed by Zionist terrorist attacks I'm sure you're perfectly okay with it. Typical conservative response to any tragedy. You'll only ever change your tune when it personally impacts you and then you'll be all confused about how anyone could support that.