To clarify, this is a war crime, the Geneva convention bans the targeting of medical transport. There’s no caveats. It doesn’t actually matter who’s driving it.
The last month has taught me that apparently all the Geneva convention is really good for is getting indie games to change a red medical cross to some other medical cross and that it can do fuck all about actual war crimes.
[ID: 5 gifs from BBC Ghosts, showing the characters in various scenes spanning the series. A quote from Jean-Paul Sartre spans each gif, which reads:
“‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other.’ Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings. And that’s possible on a sustained basis only in collectivity.”
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[Plain text: BBC Ghosts + Jean-Paul Sartre. End PT.]
GREG JENNER: I wanted to ask, in your show, Ghosts, the sitcom, is purgatory what you were thinking when you’re putting your ghosts stuck in a house?
MAT BAYNTON: Not necessarily. We sort of thought about … almost more the Sartre idea of Hell is other people—just if you’re stuck in a place seemingly forever, with the same bunch of people, then you don’t need fire and torture, that would be bad enough. And then over time, I suppose, this sort of—the message flipped itself, not really with us trying too hard, but we actually just found naturally that the characters just wanted to soften towards each other, somehow. So it actually kind of ended up being a message of … tolerance, I suppose, that if you’re forced to really, really commune with people, and see each other eye to eye, even if you’ve got differences, you’re going to see the humanity in each other eventually.
This piece was made to show support for Palestinians. This mountain gazelle was created with the colors of the flag and the meaningful patterning of the keffiyeh.
