lebanon

[anacrucis]

Several weeks ago I was informed that, due to my lack of consideration for the question of intent, my moral system was "deeply flawed."

I couldn't help thinking of the person who told me that today when I heard Ha'aretz' Zev Schiff's writing off of civilian deaths in Beirut as "collateral damage" on Morning Edition

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[lietya]

That's.... a rather staggeringly rude thing to say to someone.

although I'll admit I'm tempted to say it of those who use the phrase "collateral damage," regardless of whose side they're on.

[anacrucis]

in the context of the discussion i would have categorized it as merely close-minded and obnoxious, not quite "staggeringly rude."

[lietya]

Even so, I would like to go on record as saying - and you and I have gone a few rounds on thw "responsibility/intent" thing ourselves - that I believe it to be categorically untrue. "[C]lose-minded and obnoxious" seems a reasonable summation of someone who would dismiss a moral system because it didn't agree with theirs (or with what they thought it "should" be).