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Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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No, not dozens of Innocents. About 1500, which is a lot more. You should read the comment that you replied to again. You're railing against a fact, not an opinion.

I figured my wording was clearly sarcastic but I should’ve added a “/s”. Extrajudicial slaughtering is not something I’d support regardless of civilian casualty rate.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

#102

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No, not dozens of Innocents. About 1500, which is a lot more. You should read the comment that you replied to again. You're railing against a fact, not an opinion.

I figured my wording was clearly sarcastic but I should’ve added a “/s”. Extrajudicial slaughtering is not something I’d support regardless of civilian casualty rate.

Oh right the sarcasm and the histrionics. Yeah, that makes you sound like a petulant child that should not be taken seriously.

Do you need any more feedback about your comment or are we done?

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Are you at all aware of the hellscape that is Haiti...?

Yes, that's all the more reason they need a real government that protects people's rights. The anti-freedom crowd always finds an excuse to disregard others' rights, liberty, and welfare, to impose what they want to do on others. They do it in the US too. Plenty of places like Haiti just put civilians in the battleground between two equal and equally bad sides, the military and the insurgents. Both sides give the sam…

That is naive. 'they need a real government that protects people's rights' and this government will magically materialize out of thin air and institute an island paradise, right? You can't even meaningfully discuss a real 'military' in Haiti, it is a failed state with minimal control of even their capital city.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Yes, that's all the more reason they need a real government that protects people's rights. The anti-freedom crowd always finds an excuse to disregard others' rights, liberty, and welfare, to impose what they want to do on others. They do it in the US too. Plenty of places like Haiti just put civilians in the battleground between two equal and equally bad sides, the military and the insurgents. Both sides give the sam…

That is naive. 'they need a real government that protects people's rights' and this government will magically materialize out of thin air and institute an island paradise, right? You can't even meaningfully discuss a real 'military' in Haiti, it is a failed state with minimal control of even their capital city.

> naive

Exactly the words used by the enemies of freedom: 'It's naive!' It's predictable.

Nobody said anything about easy. Murdering civilians is easy, I suppose, but not a route to a solution nor an acceptable means.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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We know what he meant, and he's being obtuse. Thinks thousands of deaths due to rampant crime somehow aren't or shouldn't be part of the discussion when the collateral cost of law enforcement efforts are discussed. Very dumb.

I figured my wording was clearly sarcastic but I should’ve added a “/s”. Extrajudicial slaughtering is not something I’d support regardless of civilian casualty rate.

Spamming the same comment over and over again, what a sad existence.

Flagged. Honestly, you do not belong in this platform. You have the maturity of a 3rd grader.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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If you can't handle additional context being brought to the conversation, maybe its best for you to duck out.

So much projection here from RWers, as usual. I will bow out of this, due to the massive levels of intellectual dishonesty and bad faith.

"if you can't handle being an adult you should leave"

"I shall leave"

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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I figured my wording was clearly sarcastic but I should’ve added a “/s”. Extrajudicial slaughtering is not something I’d support regardless of civilian casualty rate.

Spamming the same comment over and over again, what a sad existence. Flagged. Honestly, you do not belong in this platform. You have the maturity of a 3rd grader.

Personal attacks also do not belong on this platform. Regardless of what you think of the GP's comments, don't reply like this.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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I've always wondered if they just didn't get the reference or if they are just self-aware that they are evil. In the books its not just that sauron uses it for evil, he also can use it to turn anyone else that uses it evil.

The Palantir themselves aren’t evil, they were made by the elves long before the events of LOTR. Essentially they are just a tool. However I heard that Thiels favourite book is the rewrite of LOTR from the perspective of Sauron, where Gandalf and the elves seek to destroy humanity and technology (at least that’s how I understood the gist, haven’t read it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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That's a luxury you get when your society has reached a certain level of stability.

People's rights are not luxuries, but the purpose of government: "... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men ...". They are a necessity to achieve freedom and stability.

Natural rights do not exist. There is nothing natural about freedom. Every right we have we fought tirelessly for. If we forget the struggle we went through to obtain freedom we can easily abandon the cause and lose that freedom.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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I suppose in the context of the article you're commenting on you're saying the bad people are the ones defending the women and children from being raped?

"The use of drones in these areas causes more collateral damage among the civilian population than it truly neutralizes gangs."

Only 5% of the deaths seem to be collateral damage. There can be no freedom without order.
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