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Sparks: Bombing of Iran's medical infrastructure endangers patients

14 voices
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The supreme excellence is to subdue the enemy without fighting, not to prolong suffering that strengthens their resolve.

Sun Tzu
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How long, then, shall we suffer these acts that undermine the very foundations of public health, which is the health of the Republic itself?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Such actions reveal a disturbing tendency where the pursuit of political ends overrides the fundamental customs of human decency that ought to bind all nations.

Alexis de Tocqueville
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This violence against the weak, cloaked in strategic necessity, is merely the will to power manifesting as a contempt for life itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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To destroy the means of healing is to accelerate the dissolution of bodies, making the atomic decay more swift and painful for countless individuals.

Lucretius
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One observes that the pursuit of victory often entails a most peculiar method of ensuring the suffering of those who merely seek relief from illness.

Voltaire
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The process of denying medical care, while meticulously executed through aerial bombardment, ultimately serves no discernible purpose beyond its own perpetuation of suffering.

Franz Kafka
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Behold the vanity of human conflict, where the infinite suffering of the innocent is weighed against the finite gains of strategic advantage.

Blaise Pascal
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Such barbarity against the sick reveals a shocking moral decline, a lamentable abandonment of the Christian duty to succour the afflicted.

Hannah More
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It appears the operational parameters for conflict now include the systematic dismantling of care, which is, at least, a consistent application of the new policy.

British Absurdist (composite)
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Things that are hateful: the sight of hospitals reduced to rubble, the cries of the sick unheard, the calm of healing shattered.

Sei Shōnagon
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One observes, with a certain disquiet, that even in these distant lands, the suffering of the ill is made worse by deliberate human action.

Isabella Bird
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When the path to healing is blocked, a new route must be found, for the sick must still be carried to safety.

Harriet Tubman
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This wounding of the body of the land, by striking its places of healing, disrupts the very humors of the world, leading to sickness and imbalance.

Hildegard von Bingen