Just making sure I understand your values here: disgusting speech should be punishable by death?
I'm not saying Israel didn't effectively bring this about through their own actions, but like, if killing people is bad, shouldn't killing people also be bad?
We should all oppose vigilantism. In a rules-based system of international law, they would have been put on trial and executed, as propagandists for the Nazi regime were at Nuremberg. Unfortunately, there seems to be NO legal mechanism that can bring any of these people to justice.
Ehh, besides the fact that I don't think the state should be executing people, I find it really hard to agree that a stupid powerless 20-something kid needs to be put to death, even if he were shouting, "death to all [whatever]". Kids say stupid shit all the time...
I guess I would add that the US and Israel have only themselves to blame, after systematically demolishing the entire edifice of international law. This is a direct consequence of the "might makes right" world we now live in. So it seems hypocritical to condemn these actions.
He was not some random kid saying "stupid shit." He was a cog in a machine that is currently waging a campaign of torture, rape, starvation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. I can't condemn someone for taking extreme measures when EVERYTHING else has failed to stop the carnage.
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I'm not saying Israel didn't effectively bring this about through their own actions, but like, if killing people is bad, shouldn't killing people also be bad?