And finn and DQ and Zeke and, well, me and anyone else who takes a position in direct opposition to your own.
Bullets are too expensive!
The point isn't that you do it or that you don't have a right to do it. The point is that you really don't have an excuse to whine about it when others return the favor. It's babyish and hypocritical.
It's one thing to call someone stupid and another to characterize something they've said or that they believe as stupid. You, I and even Rob have all said stupid things many more times than once but none of us is stupid. Also, if you're dealing with someone who is truly stupid, telling them that they are is pointless but, if you tell an intelligent person that a belief they hold is stupid, their intelligence may lead them to a re-examination of that belief.
And I didn't accuse Rob of being hateful. I know the post you're referring to and my use of the word was used in connection with the hypothetical soldier in his post. In fact, I maintained that a feeling of hatred was unnecessary for the soldier to behave in the way that Rob described.
And, of course, that's not at all a venomous thing to say of someone.
Which, of course, nobody here has done. Observing that Israel has committed atrocities, an incontrovertible fact, doesn't automatically entail comparison to other atrocities, even those committed by the victims of Israeli reprisals.
Atrocities are atrocities and those who commit them, be it Daesh or Hamas or the IDF, run the risk of de-legitimizing the cause in whose service they were committed. Simple stuff, really, and I can't help but believe that you know it.
Sadly, history has taught me that to hope for that would be in vain.
Actually, what I don't like is people telling me what I don't like.