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@BTE I can’t imagine someone saying yes to this question without adding on qualifiers. I’m just trying to understand what purpose this poll can serve, given the wording makes it seem like the results won’t be surprising or meaningful.
@BTE Okay, now I get it. These are not measuring what you want to measure. People may be interpreting the question as “I think the IDF is morally wrong for attacking Gazan hospitals. Do you think their actions are justified?” then mentally inserting qualifiers into your actual question to make so that their answer to the actual question is the same as their answer to the reinterpreted question.
@BTE Alternatively, people might assume that “Is it okay to” means “Can it ever be okay to”. Like, if people were forced to answer “Is it okay to lie?” with a binary yes/no, almost everyone will choose “no,” but if you ask “Can it ever be okay to lie?” the results will be more novel and interesting. So people might be assuming you intended to the less boring question, as I initially assumed.
@oh I see. I should definitely rephrase and ask people to explain their reasoning. I would be curious to know why people are saying it's okay to attack a hospital full of wounded enemies. I would never accept an American field hospital being attacked is okay and I don't think there are any exceptions. I would never think it was okay if the US military did it either.
@BTE International law is very clear that hospitals lose their protected status when belligerents are using them. It is absolutely undisputed from every credible source that Hamas is significantly operating out of these hospitals, and they are legitimate targets.
The problem with never attacking hospitals under any circumstance is that Hamas are defectors on every form of international law. If we make hospitals absolutely immune to any kind of attack, guess where every single Hamas fighter will be holed up? And that will be much worse for civilians than the status quo.
@SemioticRivalry This question says nothing about operating from a hospital. It's about whether or not they (or anyone) can treat wounded without fear of attack. You are assuming the also operate from these locations but that is not my question.
Where can wounded Hamas be treated is my question to you?? Or are you saying wounded hamas that pose no immediate threat because they are dying are legit targets??
@BTE You are intentionally asking questions about an ongoing situation while leaving out the most important aspects of the situation. Hamas wounded can be treated at hospitals, that is entirely different from storing ordnance in hospitals and firing from inside hospitals to prevent the advance of an army. That is the reason the IDF is attacking the hospitals, and Biden agreed with it. If it wasn't absolutely necessary do you really think the IDF would want to take the global shitstorm that attacking hospitals causes?
@SemioticRivalry You are accusing me of ignoring the nuance, okay well that goes both ways. How should Hamas mark their hospitals for wounded fighters? Where in Gaza can they set that up that it won't be targeted by IDF? And in terms of the civilian infrastructure in Gaza, who is now responsible for paying to rebuild everything?
@BTE The IDF would not attack the hospitals if Hamas wasn't illegally operating out of them, they could use hospitals like any other military in the world just fine. The IDF is not the one defecting from the international humanitarian equilibrium, Hamas is. We don't even know what the post-war government of Gaza looks like so it's impossible to say who will rebuild everything.