It is cowardly to attack citizens
Reasons to agree:
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"It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus." Barack Hussein Obama
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Citizens include old men, women, and children who are unable to defend themselves.
- There is a difference between purposely targeting citizens, and accidently harming citizens.
Reasons to agree:
- Those who attack citizens tell themselves, that in a Democracy the citizens are responsible for the actions of their government and can be held responsible for actions they disagree with.
Interest of those who agree:
- Protecting civilian life
- Stopping the cycle of violence when people get angry from their civilians being killed.
Interest of those who disagree:
- Waging a war that they don't think they can win with conventional soldiers.
- Revenge for perceived wrongs.
- Stopping the spread of Western Culture.
- Stopping the spread of women's rights.
- Stopping the spread of sexual freedom
- Stopping the spread of the right to divorce.
Related beliefs:
- It is wrong to attack citizens.
- It is not effective to attack citizens.
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