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I would love that too. I write a whole post also condemning the perpetual cycle of violence. But the point was to illustrate how the situation can be ...

Would you like to answer that question?

Should the Allies have bombed Nazi Germany in 1945?

Perhaps reference this: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/847759

Yes, you are making my case. Not only are their means evil but so is their ends. Perverted religious ideology of death. People on this forum don’t wan...

Nice, very cool stuff thanks. But whence "mental representation" versus the prior "behavioral inputs/outputs"? How is it this difference in degree at ...

Yes sure. But my point was that perhaps there is a difference in kind.

At the end of the day, \violent/barbaric means is not going to convince Israel that Palestine is looking for for a round of negotiations and living pe...

You can have degrees of computer programming that gives you really good responses, but as good as those outputs are, it may never truly be conscious.

:up: The kind of consciousness I am talking about wouldn't necessitate "rationality" but some sort of "awareness" of the environment, something akin t...

In a way, the idea about the origins of Israel is relevant and irrelevant. It is relevant in that it was the inability for the Arab nations/Palestinia...

So the big deal I see is that sponges have very basic neural networks that most scientists agree is behavioral but without a mental representation of ...

My point in the comparison is Hitler wanted a counterinsurgency, and in some sense, towards the end of the war, it can be characterized as such in the...

You mean nearly 20 years ago when the extent of how they operate as a para-governmental entity wasn't known yet and as you stated earlier were almost ...

Simply not putting onus back where it belongs. Seems deflection to me. If you want to talk about the greater breakdown of strategic 2 state solutions,...

Throwing more red meat to the forum bias masses I see. Netanyahu is the prime minister he has to work with, that is independent of supporting Israel i...

So continued condemnation for a barbaric terrorist organization that keeps its own people hostage by perpetuating/provoking a war with its neighbor, f...

I’m not sure how I pulled a switcheroo, application to is what I meant. That being said, I proposed focusing on neurofauna in biology as to where the ...

Everett’s Many worlds theory might get around the collapsing wavefunction problem. Not saying it’s the right theory, but it accounts for a sort of rea...

It’s a matter of questioning what’s given. Bad faith and all that. Humans are the only animals with self-consciousness (replete with concepts and self...

This would be the ONLY hope. And the willingness to clamp down on radicals. I think that is a fallacy of necessity argument. No, suicide bombings and ...

In as far as Israel should relinquish control to PA, sure. But PA will have to step into role of constant mediator for their own extremists. Do they h...

There can be extremists on either side, but this doesn't discount the lack of moderate Palestinians to take a deal and start moving on living their li...

My point was that it would require a civil war to gain control back from rogue actor Hezbollah de facto doing whatever it wants. They don't want that,...

I mean, this "it is what it is" seems like political nihilism writ large. Granted, the stories of country formations are almost all replete with blood...

Man, you might be the most schizophrenic poster on this topic on here. 1) As to Lebanon, sounds about right in terms of the government, except then yo...

War is hell. Dresden, Berlin, etc. Were bombed pretty damn heavily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Berlin_in_World_War_II#:~:text=The%20deat...

I mean, again, we can probably start talking culture here, but doesn't that support Israel's wariness of hostile neighbors? Why can't Lebanon moderate...

I know what you are implying, but I am not sure if it's a cultural thing, but there needs to be a culture of compromise for any of it to work. I know ...

When was that in question by me? And yet, again, you make a weird juxtoposition (this time starting with how big bad Israel never wanted to accept an ...

Such a weird juxtaposition of the first sentence with the rest of the paragraph. In one fell swoop you admitted, the moderate Pals failed, and then in...

Indeed but my point earlier is that there was a time when there was a chance to form the two state solution and the “moderates” blew it on the Pals si...

I see y’all ignored my history lesson for your usual dialogue. The sideline banter is just as predictable in their camps.

I just want to couple my last comment with Netanyahu should be booted forthwith. Obviously wouldn’t happen until after the end of the this campaign an...

I can’t picture moderate Pals using force to suppress radicals. Also a compromise means you don’t just get 100% of what you want. It especially doesn’...

Correct which seems to contradict What if it’s turtles all the way down?

It’s the inability to compromise for moderates, and the inability to control the radicals. Almost all of it stems from that.

It goes deeper than that. Imagine the college-educated, yet mainly sports-watching, hard-drinking, workaday man whose very existence is subsumed by th...

From I get from it, especially this: You very much echo Schopenhauer's notion of Will. And if so, I don't see how this is "direct realism", especially...

Well to be fair, I was echoing @"Janus":wink:. I like to build from simples (lazy and dunce-like) and go from there. But I enjoy your word salad. As I...

I'd have to agree with this: From what I can gather from it is you are advocating for some kind of process philosophy. But I believe you would deny th...

So solipsism basically? There is no world outside an experiencer?

I believe you have not achieved what I have asked. If anything, that is more obfuscatory. In one sentence, summarize, in laymen's terms, your idea. If...

If you were to summarize your position in one sentence that was comprehensible to almost anyone, and was not being cheeky, poetic, or obtuse, what wou...

I think they’ve proven very thoroughly they can’t be, and odd that you’d want to reward it because “settlements”. One can be against settlements and n...

I just wanted to acknowledge this. Unlike Israel who at least gives a shit about its own population, I see no fucks about human life for Hamas.

This is the best I can translate from that incoherent nonsensical paragraph using ChatGPT: "If all modern nations were not established through peacefu...

Absolutely.

The Native Americans thought the British were terrorist colonizers. Well the British saw the Americans as terrorists in 1775. Tarred and feathered off...

Oh poor Benkei. You are too far gone in this one it seems. You plant ice, you are going to harvest wind, and all that. For the record, you are support...