Frodo Podschwadek<p>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?</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionality</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
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Thinking Munk<p>The Expectation of a Proportional Response | <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@destiny" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>destiny</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Warfare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Proportionality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasMurray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasMurray</span></a></p>
Hurting more people is worse<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@jopy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jopy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@kmpiw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kmpiw@infosec.exchange</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dozymoe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dozymoe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> </p><p>You are correct that they are not peers.</p><p>If Israel deploy the full force of their military against an opponent who are 90% weaker it violates <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionality</span></a> before you even look at the details.</p><p>Last time I checked <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Qassam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Qassam</span></a> 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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SarayaAlQuds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SarayaAlQuds</span></a> combined were about 37,000 compared to half a million people in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a></p>
AhaAchja<p>“Hydrogen is the realistic solution for decarbonizing the housing stock in Germany” </p><p> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Aiwanger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aiwanger</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Bavaria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bavaria</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/EconomyMinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyMinister</span></a></p><p>Technical <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incompetence</span></a> is measured in the unit [Aiwanger]. </p><p>It's an inverse <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionality</span></a>. The more Aiwanger, the lower the <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/competence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>competence</span></a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/function" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>function</span></a> tends towards zero.</p><p>By @aellalabrys.bsky.social</p>
Joanna Bryson, blathering<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proportionalitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionalitat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a></p><p>Omer Bartov, a former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces and historian of genocide, wrote that by May 2024 “it was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions”.</p><p>Palestinians displaced in Gaza: 1.9 million (90% of the population)</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/the-devastating-impact-of-15-months-of-war-on-gaza?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/jan</span><span class="invisible">/15/the-devastating-impact-of-15-months-of-war-on-gaza?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Joanna Bryson, blathering<p>DW has quite a picture for this story. German mainstream discourse has certainly moved in 16 months. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proportionalitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionalitat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Transboundary Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/565779/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/565779/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ApI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArmedConflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArmedConflict</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChristianTshiamalaBanungana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianTshiamalaBanungana</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CollateralDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollateralDamage</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/distinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>distinction</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DueDiligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueDiligence</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnvironmentalDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDamage</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnvironmentalHarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalHarm</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/IvonMingashang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IvonMingashang</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Kuwait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kuwait</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MartensClause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MartensClause</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MilitaryNecessity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryNecessity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NoHarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoHarm</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/precaution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>precaution</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proportionality</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TransboundaryHarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransboundaryHarm</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:</p><p>«««««<br />If a person transgresses any of these rules, the penalty shall fit the crime.</p><p>[Quod quis earum rerum migrassit, noxiae poena par esto.]<br />»»»»»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br /><a href="https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/60959/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu</span><span class="invisible">s/60959/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/appropriateness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>appropriateness</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fit</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/guilt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>guilt</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/lawbreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lawbreaking</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/penalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>penalty</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/proportionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>proportionality</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>punishment</span></a></p>
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