I've given this example a fewer times, but I inactive don't have an opinion on it, so I repeat.
Imagine a gangster locked up with 3 small kids. We have a choice: either drop the grenade and kill everyone, or let the gangster get away. If a gangster escapes, he'll kill innocent people later. possibly kill 1 person, possibly five, possibly 50.
If we knew for certain he'd kill 50, we'd most likely gotta sacrifice those 3 kids. But with five, it's getting hard to solve.
In Vietnam, Americans killed 2 million civilians, in Iraq respective 100 thousand. Was it worth it?
Now in Iran, Lebanon, and earlier in Gaza to kill 1 gangster, you gotta kill quite a few innocent people. If they hadn't been killed, they could have harmed innocent people too. The question is inactive about the balance sheet.
We had a gangster named Jaruzelski in history. If in December 1981 Americans bombed Warsaw by killing Jaruzel together with Kiszczak while killing 1,000 people, would we proceed to treat America as friends?
Michał Leszczyński
