Wouldn't morality be in the end a subjective issue? Something that either is right or wrong, is usually something that a subject has to decide. For a ...
Don't we still have a five day work week??? Some workers rights still exist too. (Oh right, they aren't anymore leftist objectives, they're universal ...
The big question is what Israel will do after the military operation (and how long the operation will last). At least the Israeli government has made ...
I think the basic problem is that people want to define consiciousness as a clear division between the sentient and the non-sentient. Proto-consciousn...
Hopefully this is just posturing. Everything in order just to play that jingoistic card, but not then go further. Maduro can, quite correctly, then sa...
They are a bit different issues. Because if you have sovereign wealth fund, to have UBI is actually far more easier. What you don't want to have is th...
Well, Venezuela under Maduro is getting rid of Venezuelans: There are 7,1 refugees now out from Venezuela. So naturally the best option is to start a ...
As someone noted earlier by surprising people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w75ctsv2oPU Same people talking then with sanity. What difference some ...
I assume that the objective is to have prosperity among all the people. One Cuban that was a party member (of the Communist party), said once to me: H...
Hugo Chavez was a perfect example of leftist populism, who could rule by dividing the Venezuelan society by similar polarization that is going on in t...
Yep. This is the thing. One has to make a living. Scott Ritter's apogee was when, as a former weapons inspector, he published a small booklet that con...
Yes, military capabilities surely matter. But those conquered lands that the Mongol Empire briefly held united, didn't start then worshipping Tengri. ...
I was thinking of the problem is the most simple way in mathematics. Usually our models are mathematical, so the simple model would be y=f(x) where th...
Iran uses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to further it's own Islamic Revolution. Simple as that. Since Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries have e...
Wrong. Putin stated quite consistently of the artificiality of Ukraine and that parts of Ukraine should be/are integral parts of Ukraine for example i...
How keenly you leave out the annexations, the Russification measures done in the territories under occupation and all that Putin has himself said abou...
Because pre-Christian Europe is actually quite old. A lot has happened after that! A lot in what has made Western Culture so significant has happened ...
That the Greco-Roman 'pagan' philosophy endured time and was accepted comes down to philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, but others too. Just how many ha...
That we are looking for a certain mechanism in how knowledge works. Just like driving on the surface of a planet can get you anywhere on the surface o...
Not actually everywhere: for example in Sweden (which Finland was also a part of) the peasants remained quite independent and the aristocracy wasn't a...
You defined well from where consciousness comes from here: . I think we have a problem just with defining how knowledge works... which in my view come...
Indeed. I think Putin is quite confident that he will win this war, likely thinking that in the end Americans will be feeble and will leave some Polan...
Well, that kind of agriculture basically remained in Europe until the 19th Century. For example in Finland, basically subsistence farming finally died...
Sorry, been a bit busy now. It surely took a lot of time. The 'Westernization' of European, or the continent to become 'European' as we now know, sure...
Never underestimate the lack of leadership qualities that Trump has. Remember: this man is simply not fit to be a President. We've already seen this, ...
Did Trump incite a riot? Yes. Did Trump attemp an self-coup? No. The Secret Service just drove him off (against his will) to the White House where the...
I am in the belief that in a democracy an individual can be totally consistent and to argue for a rule based international order, then those rules are...
Don't forget that nasty human rights record that Egypt has too! Yet that doesn't change the fact that actually both Turkey and Egypt, and Saudi-Arabia...
Defense secretary James Austin nailing it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YOU3S52V3y4 Of course the biggest threat, even if it's a remote possibility,...
Retaliatory strikes is the norm in Israeli strategy with the Palestinians and Hezbollah. It's a kind of tit-for-tat game with sometimes the 'mowing of...
Missionary work and people turning into Christianity (or any religion) voluntarily happens in only few occasions. Many times it has been a political d...
Well, you had witch burnings in the American colonies, hence we always have to look at a historical era as an unique time in history and not try to co...
I think the interesting question is just how Western actually Jewish culture is. Because the foundations of that culture are in the Orient, yet the di...
If there's a debate, there's two sides. And when we have to remind of the Enlightenment thinking, means simply that it's then questioned or forgotten ...
Seems that in this thread Western Culture is made to have it's birthplace in the Holy Land. I think Western Culture dates back further into history to...
I think the problem is to think here that retaliation and retaliatory strikes is the answer. Going after the perpetrators to prevent further attacks i...
Indeed. Even if the inflow from Russia and Eastern Europe after the Cold War ended helped the Jewish demographics. That's why drawing the borders in a...
Well, forget then the UN. But a lot of countries do not simply kick out that 'rules based order', so forgive me if I, just as in the case of Ukraine,h...
Because afterwards there was a ceasefire line, which actually now even the Palestinians have in the negotiations accepted to be the starting point (no...
And those mass shootings are unfortunately quite frequent on the national level. And earthquakes and hurricanes can be anticipated to hit certain plac...
The US having so close ties to Israel and giving so much support is the biggest cause here. Typically it's the conservatives in the World who have bee...
No, but it will tried to be made so, to be part of the "culture war". What better way to draw simple lines without thinking things with reason and obj...
Meaning that the loss of territory isn't such a traumatic experience when you don't loose the people also. And you don't have families separated etc. ...
But notice that Finland still has sovereign territory, even if the border is now just a few kilometers from my countryplace (which it wasn't for my gr...
That is the strategy possible for every people that have ever been occupied and their territory annexed by another country. Be this invader either a c...
What chance did the open air prison have? Oh right, they could be in the same situation as the Palestinians in the West Bank, I guess. Well, Bibi supp...
Well, I guess if your country annexed and occupied Finland, I bet we would be as bothersome as the Palestinians and would all the time crying about th...
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