But there's just something bestial about slaughtering uninvolved people with your own hands.
I think you are right in a consequential sense (making killing easier to do makes it more likely to happen), while the people who are willing to raid and slaughter like Hamas are undoubtedly morally worse for it.
Not really. It's just easier, which leads to one of the moral failings of our modern "peaceful" empires.
And that's true too.
But there's just something bestial about slaughtering uninvolved people with your own hands.
I think you are right in a consequential sense (making killing easier to do makes it more likely to happen), while the people who are willing to raid and slaughter like Hamas are undoubtedly morally worse for it.