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A moral compass in the ballpin hammer, October 9th, 2023, introduction.

So Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel, which involved thousands of rockets

and deliberate murdering of civilians, along with the kidnapping of multiple hostages.

Following both sides, to date thousands are injured and hundreds dead.

This came just a few weeks after the Biden administration released $6 billion back to

Iran, which serves as a funding source for Hamas.

And so this attack happening now is probably not a coincidence.

As a result, Israel is now in a state of war, and because war always brings along with

it, the fog of war, especially in our times, an age already bewildered and wandering around

in the fog of peace, it is important for us to remember certain key things.

And if we are not in a position to remember these principles, then we must recover them.

We really do need to recover them.

Some of the conservative Christian hot takes, overall this, are revelatory, and not in a

good way.

Know your bad guys.

The bad guys in this kind of mess should not be hard to identify.

If you murder civilians in such a way as to declare to the world that you are absolutely

fine with murdering civilians and with the cameras running, then you have also declared

to the world your desire to be considered among the damned and depraved.

And if you look at the spectacle of such civilians being murdered in this way, and your

reaction is to start talking about root causes or various forms of what aboutism, or you

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