When a person flying a plane into the World Trade Center dies, do you mock their stupidity for putting themselves in harm’s way? Do you talk about Darwinism in action.
He knowingly risked him life for a cause he believed in. He died for a cause that mattered passionately to him.
You’re a smart kid. Try to come up with one, just one, morally relevant difference between your example and the peace protestor’s actions.
Meanwhile, I’ll answer your question. I certainly don’t mock the stupidity of the World Trade Center murderers’ actions: they were evilly brilliant. Nor do I talk about Darwinism in action, because that’s just unscientific twaddle.
As for your last sentence, it’s roughly equivalent to saying, “Pff, corpses. I say 'kill ‘em all.’” You kinda have to be dead to be a genuine martyr, so what you’re saying is incoherent.
Err…I’m apparently still being whooshed; I’ve just read your first post over twice more, and I’m still not figuring out what its subtext or sarcasm would be. Sorry!
She was, as another poster put it, “playing chicken” with a bulldozer! And an extremely large one at that! I’m at a loss to see how such a stupid activity was showing support for any cause. She really thought they were going to stop because she was jumping around like an idiot? How is that comparable in any way to a soldier fighting in a war?
She thought there was a good chance they’d stop, yes, but she knew the danger that they wouldn’t stop and was willing to accept that danger.
Like a soldier, she took an action that risked her own life in order to try to influence the actions of a government that she opposed. Unlike a soldier, she only risked her own life: she wasn’t willing to risk the lives of other people in order to attempt to effect this change.
Whether she was successful remains to be seen, but I suspect that Israel will review their policies very carefully, making her sacrifice far less “stupid” than the sacrifice of a US soldier, whose death emboldens the opposing army.
From the accounts I’ve read, seems like she was trying to get out of the way once she realized she was in imminent danger of being plowed under.
She might not have been so keen on the whole martyr aspect, a martyr would have just layed down and been plowed. She was scrambling in an attempt to not become a martyr.
So she might be granted martyr status posthumously, but from the accounts of her trying to get out of the way (a bit too late) I’d say she wasn’t really aiming for that goal.
According to points 37 and 39 (pages 9 and 10), the IDF has already had demolition related deaths. (Although, the complaint does not state whether these were with the Caterpillar D9). This would get rid of the “bulldozer hasn’t killed anybody before” excuse if the Caterpillar D9 was used (and the deaths were from the protestors).
When you’re done with your crystal ball, may I use it for a bit? Because I can’t see as far into the future as you.
Unless you mean that it made it easier for you to dismiss her, and admit that you have no understanding of the clout of the international human rights movement or of the history of nonviolent protests and the political fallout that’s occurred from deaths during nonviolent protests; if that’s all your saying, well, I’ll try to schedule some time into my busy life to care.
You know what I hate? When you click the submit button, and while your waiting for the page to load, your noticing an obnoxious misspelling in you’re post, but it’s too late to do anything about it.