Just "Thou shalt not kill" - most people fulfill that moral obligation without even thinking about it, so that's pretty realistic, isn't it? Not sure ...
You're suggesting that you feel a sense of moral obligation to all strangers, are you not? And yet I'll go out on a limb and assume that you don't spe...
Ah, gotcha. Well, the interesting development is that big US media outlets are now pushing the lableak theory and seem to be pointing their arrows at ...
Well, you were challenging my comment and I worked with what you gave me. Does that really count, though? :chin: How do you know that money doesn't di...
If the lab leak theory is correct, which seems likely, then the US and China have the blood of millions on their hands. How exactly is that not releva...
Well, that's not an answer to my question, but this is getting more interesting by the minute. Apparently there exists a moral obligation to save peop...
Even if one assumes it is moral to literally murder someone in order to save others, why would there be an onus on the bystander to get involved in th...
There has been a lot of evidence supporting the lab leak theory for years, so much so that I figured it to be accepted fact by now. I guess I was wron...
The real world parallels indeed seem apparent and relevant. In the case of triage there's an essential difference in the fact that every person there ...
As far as criminals go, Trump is far from the worst the American political class has to offer. The difference is that most of them never were held to ...
Ah, but I'm afraid that's an inaccurate representation of cause and effect. My inaction didn't do anything. Whoever put those people there is the one ...
I think it's morally relevant, but not in the way it's usually portrayed. The dilemma doesn't state the person has to get involved. The person has a t...
Well, I did not put the people on the track, nor am I responsible for their well-being. So really it's none of my business. I would keep walking. What...
Modern politics is a giant clown car any way. The best thing you can do is get off and laugh at the spectacle. I wish we could laugh about our politic...
The Western approach doesn't make sense on any level, does it? They commit fully to the military option, even though there is no chance of victory. Me...
But it is true, isn't it? Israel has inflicted over ten times as many civilian casualties as Hamas did. Nothing screams "moral high ground" more than ...
Except that 1940's Germany was an actual threat, and wasn't bullied over the span of six days after which Israel doubled its own territory. Why? They ...
You're all over the place. Now aggressive action is self-defense. I'm sure oppression and apartheid are self-defense, etc. There's simply no way you c...
Philosophers should practice what they preach. Precisely because philosophy isn't a hard science, the philosopher themselves should act as a 'living p...
France was actually preparing for a new conflict with Germany, and it was preparing to fight that conflict on German soil. Yet, when Germany invaded F...
Except that the Maginot Line was most definitely built to accomodate a counter-offensive into Germany. It even explains why on the Wikipedia page you ...
If Germany had excused its invasion of France under the pretense that France was oh-so threatening, would we take it very seriously? I wouldn't. And I...
The premise has all the support it needs: decades upon decades of UN Security Council resolutions. There are few things as set in stone as the fact th...
In 1967 it was Israel who decided to illegally occupy the West Bank and Gaza (among other territories). Its base territorial greed cannot excuse "cont...
I think you'll have to admit that even if we disregard all of the nations you named, we will still end up with near-unanimous condemnation of Israel's...
By the way, Israel does not represent Jews globally. It doesn't even represent all Jews within its borders. Many are adamantly opposed to Israel's mal...
If countries' views may be disregarded based on human rights violations then where does that leave Israel? :lol: Okay, so in your view, Arab and Islam...
In other words: "I'm not crazy, the world is crazy!" If Hitler were to make the same argument in 1939, what would you think of that? Would that be ver...
The UN represents global opinion, and global opinion has condemned Israel's actions now and in the past nearly unanimously - in the General Assembly, ...
Right. Never spoken to a Palestinian, and yet here you are excusing crimes against humanity perpetrated against them. It's a bit rich, don't you think...
And on what basis do you make that judgement, given that the UN has consistently pointed at Israel's settlement policy as a purposeful obstruction of ...
Yet, the Israelis have had their state for nearly a century, and the Palestinians have been living under a brutal Israeli oppression since 1967. A rec...
That was in 2005, and the numbers involved just weren't anywhere in the ballpark of what would be required for the creation of a Palestinian state. Al...
Of course Israel couldn't remove the settlers. We're talking about literally hundreds of thousands of people (in many cases armed and militant), when ...
Again, what deal are you talking about? There was no deal to be had. Or do you think Israel would have started removing settlers based on whatever bor...
Do you expect me to believe you don't understand the meaning of those maps? Those settlers were never going to go away. Israel could promise 100% of t...
A Palestinian State was never feasible, because Israel since 1967 worked extensively to make it unfeasible via their settlement policy. That's the poi...
Interestingly, the Kremlin offered a cease-fire and granted Ukraine an opportunity to return to the negotiating table with the March/April 2022 Istanb...
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