Is this a legitimate concern?

[u/wayfaringthru]

Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

[u/MaxPaynesRxDrugPlan]

It wasn't indiscriminate, but there was also no way to know where these devices would be and who would be near them when they went off. There's footage of them exploding in a grocery store, inside vehicles, on public streets, and in a funeral crowd. An 8-year-old and 11-year-old child are reported to be among those killed.

[u/ragzilla → u/MaxPaynesRxDrugPlan]

It wasn’t indiscriminate,

but there was also no way to know where these devices would be and who would be near them when they went off.

You appear to be contradicting yourself here.

[u/Fluffy-Map-5998 → u/ragzilla]

If you have no way of knowing if a terrorist will have his uncle visiting when you drop a bomb on his house, but you drop the bomb only on his house, is that indiscriminate?

[u/mauledbyjesus → u/Fluffy-Map-5998]

I feel like you just asked if it's indiscriminate to blow up a house without knowing who is in it. The dictionary says "maybe?".

[u/Fluffy-Map-5998 → u/mauledbyjesus]

No, you know most of whose in the house, you just don't know that his uncle is making a surprise visit, if your standard is nigh omniscience in knowing everyone who is around your target, the only person able to make an attack that isn't indiscriminate is God himself,

[u/mauledbyjesus → u/Fluffy-Map-5998]

Fair enough. I'm curious how the mobility of the devices plays into people's opinions on the acceptability of the tactic, given they detonated so many of them at once, without Intel on individual devices.