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Originally posted by Adder
Is invading Gaza and targetting its democratically elected (if despicable) government really proportionate?
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I have never understood the logic of a "proportionate" response. It seems to me that a proportionate response just encourages whomever you are responding to, to transgress again. If your goal is to stop them from seizing soldiers, or if you are trying to get your soliders back, isn't the disproportionate response what you want?
After the Japanese attacked us, was it a "proportionate response" to ask for the total and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan, and completely refusing all their attempts at a negotiated peace.
Why would anyone ever want to use a "proportionate response"? What possible use could that serve?
