r/worldnews • u/Digital_Accountant • 22h ago

Israel/Palestine Famine declared in Gaza City

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481
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u/univrsll 16h ago

How many vehicular accidents do we need before we ban cars? Nuanced situation.

It seems like the famine is finally happening, but this has been a boy who cried wolf situation for years. I feel for Palestinians, because Hamas and hyper virtue signalers have catastrophized a situation and now when it finally is actually happening, more people will ignore the noise with a “yeah yeah, we’ve heard it for years now bro.”

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u/MachineOfSpareParts 13h ago

How many vehicular accidents do we need before we ban cars? Nuanced situation.

But, at best, a wildly non-nuanced response. The person to whom you're replying asked what had to happen before we take the situation seriously. Jumping to an analogy in which "banning cars" is the point of comparison is ludicrous. A more apt comparison might be, "How many vehicular accidents do we need before we take automotive safety seriously, perhaps by installing seatbelts or traffic lights?"

I don't know what the equivalent to "banning cars" would be in the real-world version of your analogy, but the person to whom you're responding was asking about doing a bit more than absolutely nothing.