Hacker News Reader

No, he’s justifying killing the monsters who go out to murder and wipe out families, then put other families deliberately in the line of fire to try and get the opportunity to do it over again

View on HN

So you just kill the entire neighborhood? Ok And after you killed thousands of kids and families because you're targeting the terrorists, what's the status right now? Did you wipe the terrorists? What is the "good" outcome?

This results of this barbaric strategy don't look good from any angle. Is there a problem with the intelligence? It's been a month I think

You do your best to kill as few people outside the terrorists as possible, accepting that because any military is not all-powerful and the terrorists are incentivized to and do put civilians in the line of fire, you will not get it 100% right and civilians will be killed unintentionally.

It's the least bad of a set of terrible options.

Not even that, he's just presenting the other side of the scenario, in a probably honest attempt to balance the perspective so one-sidedly presented by the flamewar, pre-digested parent comment.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com