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"Gaza, 14 year-olds are definitely military aged males"

Jesus Christ David, how is it possible that you're able to write something like this about 14-year-old children? 14-YEARS-OLD!!! And let's be very clear, ~40% of people in Gaza are under 14. 14 is the top end of that age range you're blithely dismissing the killing of.

And further, even if we've really reached the point where we can tell ourselves that 14-year-old male lives are worthless, that they're all terrorists and rapists, I'll remind you that just slightly more than half of those "children' are girls. We DO have an idea about that.

I think we all need to be mindful of our souls here. It's easy, when you're having a debate with somebody on the internet, where the desire to score a rhetorical point is animating your fingers, when the dead people we're talking about are just numbers on a page, to lose sight of what you're advocating or defending.

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