What I think is that this is a right I agree with -- but what I think is happening is far worse than what you're imagining, given that we're witnessin...
What do we have? A charge of "spreading hate" -- but I'm the one who has used "evil", not @"Christoffer", except this one time in quotes: So: I can't ...
"Would" -- it's already there. And what you describe is ironic given that this is what happened to the Palestinians -- imagine a group of people show ...
I take it that the demand is being pushed to the point that the families cannot even prove they owned such and such -- hopefully because the documents...
What I've noticed, though, is that in all my time of saying we should seek non-violent solutions it doesn't matter what you say: The violence goes on ...
No, I'm not doubting that event. I'm doubting some of the reports, as one ought to, but I'm not saying "That never happened" The report I've come to d...
Now if that's what Malcolm X wanted or would accomplish or did accomplish then certainly that's bad. I have a different feeling on what he did -- I ha...
I'm not certain. I could see it being as dumb as you say here: a banality of evil whereby a young frustrated man decided to do something dumb that was...
The part that makes me hesitate here is that there were also immediate reports about finding hundreds of beheaded babies. And then learning that Israe...
I do. It's something that makes sense to me both in the literary and the chemical sense. If it's false then I can't clarify by analogy, but if it's tr...
The reason Gaza "sticks in my craw" is because I went to a conference and spoke to various Palestinians there. I did this because I had a friend from ...
And why does it continue to happen? And, the bigger political question -- what's with the intuition that killing is wrong and our constant habit of ma...
The feeling of absurdity I have is with respect to the condemnation of such violence. Biblically we have some planks in our eyes. And to see the amoun...
This strikes me as backwards. One can only give aid to the suffering, but if you dare try to resist the movement of weapons to actually prevent the ge...
And they did so with the blessing of the law. The American Revolution broke the law with respect to murder, too. The law isn't a basis for making this...
The assassin was not a part of the military. He fits the profile of white Utah boy who thought it'd be funny if he shot a guy he probably had some itc...
Yeah, it is. Obviously I've stated that I think these are fascists. Which makes sense of the "not organizing to bring about change" -- a big part of w...
Demographically he's a young white guy that came out for gun control and is basically an influencer, but for the democrats. Makes sense to me, and sca...
There's a part of me that wonders if it had been Hogg then such a strict condemnation would not have been issued. Technically, yeah, you're not suppos...
Yes. He's close enough to count, to my mind, as a fascist. He may not have been knowledgeable about what he was saying -- i.e. doing it because he fou...
I sort of wonder on that one, honestly. Even if I lick the boot I sort of feel like they'll laugh and dispose of me. If only I could be a dog -- that'...
Fair. I suppose the question then is, given this realization, how do we make the dog obey? Is a fascist the equivalent of a feral dog which has no oth...
I suppose what we could say is that there are situations in which ethical commitments apply, and situations in which they do not apply. When is what w...
Not necessarily at odds with deontology -- meta-ethical nihilist, deontological normativist is fairly close to how I think about morality in the ideal...
Precisely. Not good, or bad, or indifferent -- it's just the weather report. And Gaza's weather reports are passed over. Maybe so-- but then there are...
I agree it's not a close call. It's the first person I thought of in the moment that has a coherent philosophy of political violence. Do you wonder if...
Though the way you put it here -- sure. I'm hoping that I've made my point clear enough that I'm not advocating for "any public speaker with such and ...
The question between pacifism and violence is easy to answer at its ideals: Pacifists don't do that on principle. They, more often than not, suffer fo...
Yes. What else is there? I said it's murder. I'm suggesting that this isn't the only murder we're responsible for -- so pacifism becomes an absurd dre...
Conflict here being: I admire John Brown, Eugene Debs, and various others who are heroes to my mind: I thought of these two because one did it with th...
If "the ballot" and "the bullet" are the same then it shouldn't matter which anyone chooses -- it's the results that matter. I don't think you believe...
I hope you've seen I've said as much. You're right that ": But" is the whole schtick -- that's the question I'm posing. When is the schtick justified,...
Oh, I'm unfortunately aware of such sentiments. It's not just one person, let's say. Good question. I want to focus on this notion of "balance", in pa...
Most of what you said is screamingly obvious. The absurd situation is when the screamingly obvious doesn't even register -- what had been bad or good ...
Makes sense to me. **** One of the things I'm noticing is that we are a country constantly at war. And it's not like soldiers disappear after the war....
I don't see it as an isolated event. That's why I'm bringing Malcolm X and the genocide in Gaza as points of reflection, though I see that also caused...
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