Mideast War - thought experiment, which is worse?
If you, personally, found yourself locked inside Joel Osteen's megachurch, who would you rather be locked in there with?
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
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5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
5000 IDF soldiers? Lock the doors and burn the place to the ground.
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戦争ではなく戦争と戦う
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
Howbout...one eleven year old HAMAS child soldier with an AK47 vs
having five thousand tons of Israeli munitions being dropped on you from above?
Prolly a toss up which is worse.
The kid would kill you slowly. But you would prolly die slowly of thirst and hunger while buried under the rubble of the Houston Astrodome that the Israelis bombed too.
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
Howbout...one eleven year old HAMAS child soldier with an AK47 vs
having five thousand tons of Israeli munitions being dropped on you from above?
Prolly a toss up which is worse.
The kid would kill you slowly. But you would prolly die slowly of thirst and hunger while buried under the rubble of the Houston Astrodome that the Israelis bombed too.
How about answering the question?
You don’t know that the 12 year old’s thinking hasn’t been poisoned to the point that he views you as the infidel who must be killed. He might not think that way, or he might. You know the IDF won’t kill you.
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
5000 IDF soldiers? Lock the doors and burn the place to the ground.
Ha ha. That’s really sick. Now about answering the question.
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
Howbout...one eleven year old HAMAS child soldier with an AK47 vs
having five thousand tons of Israeli munitions being dropped on you from above?
Prolly a toss up which is worse.
The kid would kill you slowly. But you would prolly die slowly of thirst and hunger while buried under the rubble of the Houston Astrodome that the Israelis bombed too.
How about answering the question?
You don’t know that the 12 year old’s thinking hasn’t been poisoned to the point that he views you as the infidel who must be killed. He might not think that way, or he might. You know the IDF won’t kill you.
Uhm... alittle further up in one of these threads it was , supposably documented by the media that the IDF killed three of the hostages ( the people they claimed to go into to save?) So how could you be sure , you might not get killed by either party ??
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5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
5000 IDF soldiers? Lock the doors and burn the place to the ground.
Ha ha. That’s really sick. Now about answering the question.
Why dont you learn to read?
We already answered the question several times. The answer is one is as bad as the other.
The IDF troops would probably mistake you for HAMAS (even if you yelled in Hebrew, tore off your shirt, and waved a white flag. And would gun you down).
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
5000 IDF soldiers? Lock the doors and burn the place to the ground.
Ha ha. That’s really sick. Now about answering the question.
Why dont you learn to read?
We already answered the question several times. The answer is one is as bad as the other.
The IDF troops would probably mistake you for HAMAS (even if you yelled in Hebrew, tore off your shirt, and waved a white flag. And would gun you down).
@rse92's question was poorly stated but I understand his intention and believe he was making a valid point. And I don't think your answer, although legitimate, is necessarily a given. It depends on a number of conditions that I don't care to debate.
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
5000 IDF soldiers? Lock the doors and burn the place to the ground.
Ha ha. That’s really sick. Now about answering the question.
Why dont you learn to read?
We already answered the question several times. The answer is one is as bad as the other.
The IDF troops would probably mistake you for HAMAS (even if you yelled in Hebrew, tore off your shirt, and waved a white flag. And would gun you down).
@rse92's question was poorly stated but I understand his intention and believe he was making a valid point. And I don't think your answer, although legitimate, is necessarily a given. It depends on a number of conditions that I don't care to debate.
I think the question is pure pointless BS.
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Seems as if the the Moslems were behaving as the Israelis are .. the American Media might start calling it a Jihad.
When you make War with the intent to annihilate a race/ specific culture , of an entire People .
IMHO the concept , the wording of a " Jewish / Israeli Jihad ." .has good media affectations .. .would sell extra Television airtime ?.
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No I don't know that. I wouldn't count on that in the slightest.
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5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
5000 IDF soldiers? Lock the doors and burn the place to the ground.
Ha ha. That’s really sick. Now about answering the question.
No, it's efficiently eliminating a threat.
Who wouldn't kill 5000 enemies in one fell swoop?
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I don’t think that the IDF would kill me specifically, but I’d rather not breathe the same air as them right now, so I’d choose the kid. I’d let him play on my Nintendo Switch. We’d get along swimmingly.
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5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
Mod. note: This thread was split as off topic material from the parent thread, here - viewtopic.php?f=21&t=416976#p9384216
The one armed Palestinian boy, obviously. But I'd be relaxed in both situations - more concerned about the "locked in" part.
5000 armed IDF fighters, or
One (1) armed 11 year old Palestinian boy?
There is only one correct answer to that question.
Mod. note: This thread was split as off topic material from the parent thread, here - viewtopic.php?f=21&t=416976#p9384216
The one armed Palestinian boy, obviously. But I'd be relaxed in both situations - more concerned about the "locked in" part.
It just now occurred to me to notice a grammatical ambiguity here.
"One armed Palestinian boy" could mean either "one Palestinian boy who is armed (carrying one or more weapons)" or "a Palestinian boy who has only one arm (in the sense of body part)."
I think rse92 meant the former, and I think that's how most (but not necessarily all) of the respondents read it.
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Being a Jewish-American I would taken my chances with the IDF. Besides the boy is a boy who just had everything he knows including people blown to smithereens by people like me.
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