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John Oliver on the Fumbled Response to Monkeypox

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ericblair8/08/2022 11:55:46 am PDT

re: #39 aatharuv

War crimes:
Placing weapons in civilian neighborhoods.

WAR CRIMES*One Million.
Placing explosive charges in Europe’s largest nuclear facility, and threatening to set them off making a bare minimum of hundreds of square miles uninhabitable for decades, with the potential to kill hundreds of thousands, either directly or through radiation exposure.

(In war, no one is pure, but some actions are orders of magnitude more justifiable than others.)

Point very well taken, but you’re ceding a point to AI you shouldn’t. Under the Geneva Conventions, you should take all reasonable precautions to avoid basing in civilian areas, but it’s a little difficult when you enemy is actively targeting these same civilian areas (you know, a clear war crime). Sure, go out in the woods where the enemy can just flank you and take the city. Why not.

And to head off another point, forcibly displacing civilians when they don’t want to leave is a war crime. So.