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That was a very childish response to @"Alkis Piskas" and compelled me to make the following comments: Your bitter, irrational, very childlike and scat...

Well, I did try to highlight examples of fantastic citizenship and community spirit, that I know for a fact exists in the small Scottish town I live i...

Israel's reactions to Hamas are very old, very predictable and mostly what Hamas expected and wanted imo. Don't get confused with how the current Isra...

Thanks, but you recognise it because it is part of who you are.

Yeah I agree, they are more like variations on the theme of human fear, rather than opposites.

Belief in nothing would be a belief! All hail the paradox!

:clap: :clap: Well typed Alkis! It would be such a big step forward in the human psyche imo, if we stopped presenting these historical butchers as any...

You need to seek assistance from a qualified psychotherapist friend.

:up: Yes it was,

Yeah but don't forget to also accuse such as the FBI, CIA, MI5, MI6, the old KGB and many others, including groups like the KKK, the proud boys, neo-n...

And along with the actual perpetrators, those are the only ones that deserve to die, which I think you would agree with.

Yeah but my position as an atheist, is relevant to your mentions of some Christians who behave like monsters (same with muslims who behave like monste...

:grin: Do you want me to start explaining to you how I, born in 1964, would have led the Celts, born BCE, against the Romans during the time of Boudic...

I am an atheist. Everything in the bible came from humans, no god involved, so no gods to scapegoat. Theism, or to be more accurate, religious dogma, ...

I don't think this is true at all. I think most civilians on both sides of such conflicts, consider the unacceptably labeled 'collateral damage,' as u...

Do you find the butchering and slaughtering of innocent civilians acceptable based on your need for drama in your life? I would certainly hope not!

In my opinion and in my experience, a good thinker (rather than such, imo, a silly standard, as a 'great' mind,) considers life at the level of ideas,...

Ok. Only partially imo, I think the main responsibility lies with those in authority, who CHOOSE to nurture and augment such pathology, and then wind ...

Not really. But I will try to explain better, why I repeated my 'not really.' You typed: This it seems to me, confirms that horror and terror tactics ...

:smile: Fair enough Tom!

Okay Sherlock, if it bothers you so much, I am happy to change to "human animal v all other animals," happy now? :roll: :rofl: https://youtu.be/fT32nA...

I think I absolutely agree with this, if I understand it properly. I often think that 'high brow' (for lack of a better metaphor) philosophy, religion...

I find this a bit confusing Jack. What would you summarise as a 'philosophical construct of purpose?' Has there ever been much consensus amongst philo...

Sorry, but your imo, unnecessary point, deserves a 'no shit Sherlock,' response.

Not really, all wars are asymmetric imo. They all contain atrocity in all shapes and forms. Conquering armies of the past were not often kind to the c...

Thats way too far for me. Any notion of horror that people might associate with natural illness, accidents, natural catastrophe etc are quite differen...

Hey, it could be worse, you could be a civilian trying to survive in Gaza or help others survive in Gaza. You and I will not organize that perfect wor...

Then if that's true, perhaps in the future, a country like Israel and its people can respond to the recent absolute terrorist horror, inflicted on alm...

Well, perhaps the physical mechanisms involved from a neuroscience angle, are very important to fully understand. I don't know much about the details ...

I have heard people describe what they would do to punish those they hate most. It normally lies somewhere on a rage from slow vivisection to tortured...

So, you are not anthropocentric or misanthropic at all. I assume that includes during all time durations, past and present. So you are somewhere on th...

Ok Tom. let me try to 'home in,' on the main questions I was trying to raise in my opening. All species on Earth had a similar experience in the wilds...

I should have noticed that they were only little trailers, given the 'Hollywood style' intro treatment, to generate dramatic attraction. So I can resp...

I will watch the two vids you offered, and then comment, on your post.

Was it just you exclusively, or was this cat aggressive towards many visitors in the way many cats are and dogs too. I don't find such examples partic...

I am ok with the difference being that 'terror' is anticipatory, threat-based, a debilitating dread of witnessing or physically experiencing (a) horri...

Well, firstly I would suggest, that 'admit' is not the most appropriate term to use here. You provided links to two very good articles about scientifi...

Thanks for the clarification, I thought you might be suggesting that some 'other' mammals were 'higher' in some way than humans. That's why I also ask...

So, keep complaining about it and keep clarifying and correcting where you feel you need too. I will keep interpreting what others type, in the ways t...

So the meaning and purpose we create for ourselves has no commonality with many many others? We are of the universe, yes? So why do you choose to isol...

By suggesting that most individual humans defer to their legal system you imply they do have an efficacy that is sufficient for most but perhaps not f...

Yes you did! you typed: In what way is this not a comment on:

Agreed. All good historical references that exemplify a point I am proposing. All the examples above are humans in full competitive mode imo, and all ...

I just do not understand how you arrive at that. I know you can be a bit cryptic at times but I assumed, that you have previously agreed, that humans ...

Which two? Gangsters like Hamas and an organised globally nefarious abominably rich elite or horror and terror. I suspect its horror and terror but if...

I broadly agree but the devil is in the detail of that word 'appropriate.' Again I agree with the 'problem' you identify but we cannot just 'accept th...

I am not sure which mammals you are referring to with 'other higher mammals' and in what sense you are employing the notion of 'higher.' Apart from th...

So, if what you suggest here is true, then are the news reports we receive about such global events, our own governments attempt to control it's popul...

You keep jumping to these extremities of possibility, in an almost knee-jerk manner imo. From claiming that 4 year old human wisdom, is capable of und...

Well, I certainly agree that prevention is better than cure. Do you not think that just as it's true of local political gangsters like Hamas, it's als...