When non-combatants are killed, it is because of a lack of discrimination between combatants and non-combatants. This is "indiscriminate." When a person is killed who posed no threat to the people doing the killing, it is "unprovoked." These are both statements of FACT, which can easily be confirmed by viewing the video. The wording is a summary, not an opinion.
100% Grade A Homogenized Wrong. All of the evaluations you have just summarized can be one of two things: an armchair opinion, or a professional opinion. In either case, the distinction between opinion and observation occurs because you did not phrase the descriptions in terms of the observable quantities of the video: the objects, settings, speech, and events.
Those 'indiscriminately' does not imply a failure of discrimination to sufficiently divide. It requires that discrimination was not implied. Lack of provocation requires a context-appropriate standard of provocation and response.
To state some observable facts: The voices on the video identified the people, identified their characteristics, and engage in a dialogue with their superiors to determine the nature of the situation and their response. That is OBSERVABLE discrimination.
Collateral Murder is loaded a phrase that I will not even try to find appropriate hyperbole.
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When non-combatants are killed, it is because of a lack of discrimination between combatants and non-combatants. This is "indiscriminate." When a person is killed who posed no threat to the people doing the killing, it is "unprovoked." These are both statements of FACT, which can easily be confirmed by viewing the video. The wording is a summary, not an opinion.
100% Grade A Homogenized Wrong. All of the evaluations you have just summarized can be one of two things: an armchair opinion, or a professional opinion. In either case, the distinction between opinion and observation occurs because you did not phrase the descriptions in terms of the observable quantities of the video: the objects, settings, speech, and events.
Those 'indiscriminately' does not imply a failure of discrimination to sufficiently divide. It requires that discrimination was not implied. Lack of provocation requires a context-appropriate standard of provocation and response.
To state some observable facts: The voices on the video identified the people, identified their characteristics, and engage in a dialogue with their superiors to determine the nature of the situation and their response. That is OBSERVABLE discrimination.
Collateral Murder is loaded a phrase that I will not even try to find appropriate hyperbole.