How did “first-principles thinking”—moving past the “emotional context” to “see the structure of an argument”—inform Kisin’s analysis of the Israel-Gaza conflict? “The obvious approach”, he asserts, is to compare the October 7 attacks to “other terrorist attacks in recent history”. If October 7 was Israel’s 9/11, on a per capita basis, only 100 people would have been killed. Kisin points out that, adjusting on a per-capita basis, October 7th would have killed 36,000 Americans! Put otherwise: applying Kisin’s logic across the board, on October 7, Hamas committed an unprecedented terrorist massacre… and Israel responded by perpetrating a Holocaust.