Israel air strike 'hits charitable association for disabled' in Gaza

[Scootaloo]

72. I can't be neutral, sir.

Not in the face of the world's 11th strongest military power using weapons designed to take out entire formations and modern military bunkers against sports bars, hospitals, and private homes, sir.

To me, being neutral there is no different than being neutral when witnessing a 250-pound man pin down and bludgeon a 90-pound woman, under the justification of "well, she did slap him first." You, sir are willing to stand by and watch her face crumple, to hear her screams turn into sobs, then gurgles, then nothing, because you have to be neutral, and you think you can justify the man's pulping of her skull as "self-defense" against her initial slap, and then against her feeble attempts to fend him off.

Now maybe your moral cowardice, your ethical stunting, is supported by the privilege of never having had to confront such a scenario, beyond flickering light on a screen, always nicely edited to protect your sensibilities. I haven't have that privilege sir. So I cannot lend my support to the animal savaging the helpless person bleeding on the floor through "neutrality." I am unable to do so. I cannot stand over her curled, limp form and drone bout how she "brought it upon herself."

That you are able to do this does not make you a paragon. It does not make you a voice of rationality. It makes you a participant in the abuse, a willing and pliant defender of the indefensible. The blood is on your hands as much as it is on the hands of the person doing the pounding. There is no neutrality here - you either support the abuser or you defend the abused, sir.

No, your vaunted "neutrality" just makes you another bloody-handed fucker who supports the destruction of the helpless to assuage the pride of the powerful, a sycophantic scavenger who waits for the predator to get done so you can snatch a bit of the meat for yourself.

Myself, I will have no more to do with your scarred stump of a moral center. I hope that someday you will wake up to realize that passivity in the face of perversity isn't an admirable trait.

A good day to you, sir.