Terror and positive reinforcement

[Ignoramus]

In training doggies there is a notion that it is useful to reinforce their positive behavior rather than punishing their bad behavior. I think it makes sense. If a dog just learns to behave based on fear of being punished, you don't really have a happy cooperating pet.

With respect to people, punishment for killing doesn't have any inherent value. Punishing Hezbollah or Hamas or Israel or etc. doesn't bring any dead people back. The notion of credit/debt with respect to killing is pretty horrific too. The notion that someone is holier than someone else and so they should be allowed to kill some number of people because they've earned credit is not good. I think it should be obvious that we are all morally equivalent. As some scribe adulterated the bible: "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone".

The notion of killing the killers is non-sensical as well, because it's not possible to find them all. So, completely eliminating Hezbollah is non-sensical, unless the actual goal is to promote permanent war.

So, shouldn't it be encouraged to invite "terrorists" to have political power. Shouldn't it be considered positive that Hamas are elected.

Right now "terrorists" are unaccountable bodies. The violence in Lebanon and Israel, is effectively between Israel and Lebanon, since they are the two populations being attacked, yet the political dispute is between an accountable body in the violence (Israel the government) and an unaccountable body in the violence (Hezbollah the group).

Instead of calling for the destruction of Hezbollah, wouldn't it be better to call for a cease fire and call for perpetual negotiation? The ones promoting negotiation would take the lead in not retaliating against attacks.

Let me predict that an argument would be that Hezbollah will not negotiate. My answer is that during the violence, there isn't a good option and a bad option, there is only a bad option (Hezbollah kills people in a non-retaliating Israel, in a deescalating spiral) and a worse option (Hezbollah or the people rising to avenge Hezbollah, kill people in a retaliating Israel, and Arabs get killed too, in an escalating spiral).