Hi,
You could certainly find an answer in the law.
I'm swiss, so I'll take my country's law as an example.
If I kill someone because I'm driving too fast , it's a crime. It's not homicide by negligence. If I drive at 60 mi/h in a city I'm accepting the risk of kiling someone. I may not want to, but I know it COULD happen. I would certainly not get the same jail time as if I killed someone with a gun, but I would be judged for this crime.
This is exactly what the israelis are doing. They are accepting the risk of killing civilians.
To answer the question above (which is worse?), you can compare the jail time you would get in both situation (fast driving and shooting someone) and multiply by the number of victims. You will have a rationnal answer, using the advise of all lawyers, judges and representatives who were asked this question. They had to come up with a solution. I think it's wise to follow their conclusion.
I watch a lot of Law and Order (the original show).
As fans of the show will be aware, the DA regularly convicts people of murder in cases where a person or people were killed unintentionally, in the pursuit of some other activity or purpose.
For 2nd degree murder, it must be proved that the accused caused the death of the victim whilst demonstrating a "callous disregard for human life" which is the specific wording of the New York statute relating to 2nd degree murder.
If I was on that hypothetical jury then I personally think that Israel would be guilty of murder under that definition. Therefore, it's 4 murders vs 64 murders (or whatever the numbers are).
And therefore, option B is still worse in my opinion.
