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falconroar
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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visuali...
Starving infants is morally justifiable if it's possible to make a rocket from their food?
gsinclair
88 days ago
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Preventing the entry of something that can be made into a weapon is justified, yes. If you want to call that “starving children”, that’s up to you.
falconroar
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Withholding food from children results in children starving. It’s not semantics.
margalabargala
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Only in the same way that pointing at a starving infant as a prop is a moral justification for using food meant for the infant instead to manufacture weapons.
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