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[-] martin4598@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Are 2000 pounder JDAM dropped on gazan civilian buildings more moral than a cluster bomb?

[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The moral calculus of bombs is a truly fucked up thing.

If the JDAM is driving a single conventional warhead, it is more ethical than a cluster bomb.

It is common for some of the cluster bomblets to not detonate creating unknown minefields that persist for decades. A single bomb only goes off once.

(This is the ethics of the bomb, not the conflict they're used in)

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Okay but if it hits a full apartment building, 100% of that bomb goes to killing unaware civilians.

Which is the whole reason cluster munitions are bad.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Any weapon fired at a civilian is a war crime. It doesn't matter what kind of munition was used. The problem with cluster bombs is that the shooting party, cannot control the result. Signatories of IHL have a responsibility to minimize damage to civilian people and assets. The same reason autonomous weapons are a huge ethical problem.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

gazan civilian tents

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