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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Are 2000 pounder JDAM dropped on gazan civilian buildings more moral than a cluster bomb?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The moral calculus of bombs is a truly fucked up thing.

    If the JDAM is driving a single conventional warhead, it is more ethical than a cluster bomb.

    It is common for some of the cluster bomblets to not detonate creating unknown minefields that persist for decades. A single bomb only goes off once.

    (This is the ethics of the bomb, not the conflict they're used in)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Okay but if it hits a full apartment building, 100% of that bomb goes to killing unaware civilians.

    Which is the whole reason cluster munitions are bad.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Any weapon fired at a civilian is a war crime. It doesn't matter what kind of munition was used. The problem with cluster bombs is that the shooting party, cannot control the result. Signatories of IHL have a responsibility to minimize damage to civilian people and assets. The same reason autonomous weapons are a huge ethical problem.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And im saying: is firing indiscriminately with no regard to hitting civilians, now or in 50 years, worse than trying to make sure 100% of a bomb kills as many civiliams and as much of their infrastructure as possible?

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