• yeahiknow3@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Now I know you didn’t think this response through. A nation isn’t a country? Tut tut.

    Read that opening paragraph you quoted. It says nothing about Israel. It is an abstract moral rule. You ask yourself, “am I making a decision that will result in the deaths of more children?” If the answer is yes, you are making the wrong decision.

    But let’s not pretend you read books.

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      7 months ago

      A nation isn’t a country? Tut tut.

      It literally isn’t.

      A nation is a group of people with a common language, history, culture, and (usually) geographic territory. A state is an association of people characterized by formal institutions of government, including laws; permanent territorial boundaries; and sovereignty (political independence). A state may comprise one or more nations (as did the Roman Empire and Austria-Hungary), and a nation may be represented in (or ruled by) one or more (usually contiguous) states, as in the early modern principalities of Germany. A state comprising or dominated by a single nation is often called a nation-state.

      I read citations, if you cared to provide any.

      am I making a decision that will result in the deaths of more children

      I submit binding Israel’s hands and keeping Hamas in power does exactly this, is makes countless future generations of children unsafe and under the control of a terrorist government who uses them as shields.