What recommended moral philosophy literature is out there regarding proportionality from an ethical perspective? I am familiar with discussions in just war theory (e.g. McMahan, Lee, Shue); what interesting stuff is there beyond this?
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@jopy @kmpiw@infosec.exchange @dozymoe @palestine @israel
You are correct that they are not peers.
If Israel deploy the full force of their military against an opponent who are 90% weaker it violates #proportionality before you even look at the details.
Last time I checked #Qassam funding was about 3% of Israel's (and that was an Israeli source trying to make "Hamas" sound rich) and at the start of the war Qassam and #SarayaAlQuds combined were about 37,000 compared to half a million people in the #IDF
What is clear is that as Israel decimates Gaza and kills tens of thousands of people, it is also attempting to recreate the norms of war-making and significantly transform interpretations of the laws of armed conflict.
If Netanyahu and his government succeed in rendering Israel’s version of #proportionality acceptable among other state actors, then the laws of armed conflict will end up justifying rather than preventing #genocidal violence.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/7/15/israel-seeks-to-rewrite-the-laws-of-war
Al Jazeera · Israel seeks to rewrite the laws of war
“If you do something for long enough, the world will accept it. The whole of international law is now based on the notion that an act that is forbidden today becomes permissible if executed by enough countries.”
Colonel Daniel Reisner
In other words, the way we calculate #proportionality is not determined by some a priori moral edict but rather the norms and customs created by militaries as they adopt new and most often more lethal forms of war-making.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/7/15/israel-seeks-to-rewrite-the-laws-of-war
Al Jazeera · Israel seeks to rewrite the laws of war
Here goes my #Introduction:
#Economics and #SocialStats by training, #Quantitative #Criminology by trading.
Interested in all things #SocialScience and #ResearchMethods
Active in:
#Sentencing, where I try to operationalise elusive concepts like #Consistency, #Individualisation, #Proportionality, #Severity or #Discrimination.
And #Measurement / #MeasurementError, especially interested in #PoliceData and #CrimeData, their flaws, implications and adjustments, www.recountingcrime.com.
.@W_Wiewiorowski@twitter.com on #proportionality as a requirement towards legislative measure entailing a limitation on #fundamentalrights to #privacy and protection of #personaldata at conference on Digital Law & Policy – Proportionality Principle in IT Regulation: https://www.wpia.uw.edu.pl/pl/konferencje/digital-law-policy-proportionality-principle-in-it-regulation
