Poll on killing children

Which is worse?

a) Stabbing children to death on purpose

b) Dropping bombs on populated areas and killing children (but by mistake)

c) Condemning an entire nation to death, including all children

I think most people would say c is by far the worst, followed by a, and then b. Of course if your kids are the ones killed chas vesholom I doubt you'd see much difference between a or b. Kids blown to pieces are just as upsetting as kids stabbed to death. Unfortunately the Torah mandates c, but that was a long time ago.

As for all the people who went beserk over a, but couldn't give a crap about b, (except maybe for a vague I'm sorry but that's the price you pay), well it just doesn't sit right with me. If killing children is an absolute horror (I think it probably is, no?) then more concern surely needs to be shown for all children, whether children of settlers in an extremist yishuv, children playing football in Gaza, or baby Amalekites.