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blurp Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 07:18 PM
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34. No matter what, innocent people will die. There is no solution.

Israel is in a no-win situation.

It reminds me of an hypothetical moral dilemma.

A runaway train is speeding toward you and your family. Somehow you're stuck and can't move. Your only option is flipping a switch that will divert the train to a side track. If you flip the switch, you and you family lives.

The only problem is that another family, like you, is stuck on the side track. Flipping the switch will surely kill them.

So what do you do? Become a murderer or martyr?

The only group that could have made the correct choice is Hezbollah. Nothing forced them to attack Israel.


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