Peter Himmelman’s Morning Musings

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10/7 Counterfactuals: A meditation on the moral test the world failed — and the price still being paid.
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10/7 Counterfactuals: A meditation on the moral test the world failed — and the price still being paid.

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Yarden Bibas, with his sister speaking at the funeral for his murdered wife Shiri, and his two boys K’fir and Ariel.

Counterfactuals are difficult. It’s hard to predict how things would have turned out if the actions we took — the things we said, or didn’t say — had been different. And yet, there is merit in this kind of reverse-engineered thinking. In …

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