Comment by delecti
Booby traps and indiscriminate targeting.
Booby traps and indiscriminate targeting.
Bobby traps are triggered by the target; these were remotely triggered. These were highly targeted to group members.
If you are mailed something in the mail, is that indiscriminately mailing or targeted mailing? It is obviously targeted. If you mail a business, it is targeted. If you mail a business something to give to all their employees, that is targeted.
Just because someone else might get what is mailed to me or that someone else might pick up what was sent to me doesn't make it "untargeted" - it is highly targeted. But missed.
The Trump attempted assassination was highly targeted and a bystander died.
I feel I have made my case. Can you provide rationale for yours beyond collateral damage? I feel the Trump example trumps that.
Post edit: I also want to acknowledge that you can feel that this is horrible and terrible and all the bad things. We are simply talking about the definition of targeted
Hardly seems like a boobytrap. Furthermore, Boobytraps are only a war crime if they target civilians, inflict unnecessary suffering, or are placed in unsavory locations like the trapping of wounded soldiers or medical supplies.