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"Millions of deaths don't matter if we can save just one." is an increasingly common take.

If you really want people to fall for the like you put fractional life on one side of the equation and whole numbers of life on the other "millions of people ought to toil for untold millions of man hours totaling to hundreds of lifetimes to save a few lives" and all that.

Source ?

Israel

There haven’t been “millions of deaths” in Israeli conflicts, even if you combine all sides since the start of its existence.

You are just looking to derail yet another unrelated conversation into a Middle-East flamewar.

This happens often on threads that are negative about China or Russia.

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