I absolutely refuse to associate myself with anyone who cannot discern the essential night-and-day difference between theocratic fascism and liberal secular democracy, even less do I want to engage with those who are incapable of recognizing the basic moral distinction between premeditated mass murder and unintentional killing.
Christopher HitchensTags: moral-equivalence war-on-terror antiwar-movement false-equivalence collateral-damage
Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this "terrorism"), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this "collateral damage"). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct... For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.
Sam HarrisTags: moral-equivalence noam-chomsky antiwar-movement collateral-damage
Maxim 28:
If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Tags: strategy military rules-to-live-by collateral-damage
Just then, Larry recalled a conversation he had with a friend in Ireland, about the situation in Nepal between the King and the Maoists. The friend was sided with the Maoists, which was more or less his political leanings in any case, and stated that at least they were trying to help the people. So Larry had remarked upon the rising death rate, and how the Maoists are just as brutal as the security forces, yet the friend simply shrugged and said you have to expect some collateral damage in a revolution.
Oh how he hates that phrase, as that makes it sound like the people’s lives are meant to be expendable, something that a person’s life should never be. Of course, it is very easy to disregard people you have never met, and who are certainly not your friends or family members. After all, in the eyes of an outsider, who is in no danger whatsoever, the people caught up in the situation are nothing more than simply statistics.
Tags: politics revolt collateral-damage maoists people-s-lives
I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed
Tags: song chapter-6 messy gayle-forman where-she-went adam-wilde collateral-damage if-i-stay-2 page-68 track-2
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