Tzeentch

Not really. I just don't consider evil to be a natural tendency, but a tendency born out of ignorance.

I can see the practical merit in that, but not the philosophical one. Once we agree that some people aren't naturally evil, aren't we drawn to the que...

Yes. Such as? As far as I am concerned your examples change little about my premise, except for the fact that some very mentally ill people may not fi...

This makes no sense to me. Imposing one's will upon another is, in my opinion, illegitimate, whether one does it on behalf of other people or not. My ...

Like I said, there are exceptions on the individual level, however the criteria that need to be checked will not realisitically apply to governments.

It seems to me you are using a generalization about what are supposedly natural tendencies in humans to explain complicated problems like free will an...

If, in that moment, he was not convinced his actions would be good for him, why would he have committed his crime? I think it is safe to assume the ma...

So, what about the minority that didn't elect them? A case could be made that the power a government has over the people who voted for it is legitimat...

There are situations in which 'imposing one's will on another' is in the best interest of the other. I do think that individuals can therefore under c...

Isn't thereby a government that exercises power imposing its will upon others? Soft power is not "power without oppression". Soft power includes thing...

Did the fellow not have some desire to do all those things, thinking it must make him wealthier/happier, etc? Was he not ignorant of the fact that non...

In the context of social relations I would describe power as "the ability to impose one's will upon another". I consider that immoral, thus any govern...

Who is "us"? Does this "us" include all the people who would not act immorally if left to their own devices? These 'natural tendencies' seem little mo...

I doubt that. You either missed or chose to ignore an important nuance, namely;

Ok, lets suppose there would be an increase. How would that make evil a natural tendency?

For one, laws often account for the outliers and not the mean, because it has to account for a great deal of insecurity. For example, because maybe 0....

I don't think humans have a natural or innate tendency towards evil. In the words of Plato; All men desire the Good. Every person desires what they th...

To respond to your original question; Pushing too hard generally means to go against the flow of the universe. There's nothing wrong with relaxing and...

I think most people have no idea what happiness is. It remains some vague idea in their heads, usually related to the possession of material things. N...

I have no disdain for your viewpoint. I am interested in why you consider those things to be premises of life, which I consider to mean either inescap...

To respond to your original question, I think it's important to ask oneself whether any of these premises are self-imposed. It may or not may not appl...

If everyone would just calm down we would breathe slower and put less CO2 in the atmosphere.

Reason.

If you're interested in this topic, which I assume you are, I would really recommend this lecture by Pierre Grimes: The Eleatic School of Parmenides, ...

Are you suggesting that we may be experiencing other people's thoughts and therefore we cannot definitely state that "I think, therefore I am"? If tha...

How on Earth did you read my words and come to the conclusion I must find it acceptable for Israel (or any other country for that matter) "to kick its...

The controversial "Nation State Law", also called "Basic Law", is not quite the same as the "basic laws of Israel". The piece of legislature I linked ...

I'm not saying that at all. Read again. In such a scenario, do you think it would help if Israel had a century of antagonizing Arabs under its belt? I...

In a "best" case scenario, the law I cited constitutes a institutional violation of fundamental human rights. Article 1c) "The exercise of the right t...

How exactly would the oppression and discrimination of minorities contribute to that security?

This is irrelevant. If Kurdistan or Armenia included ethnic groups which are distinctly different from the other Kurds or Armenians then yes, certainl...

"At the start" is key here. The responsibilities may have been voluntarily taken up initially, today following international law is no longer voluntar...

Some would argue my question answers yours, and your question answers mine.

My use of the word "forfeited" was inaccurate, but its not integral to the point I'm trying to make, namely that there are rules that states have to f...

The real question is; what happens when we experience mind itself, turning observer and observed into the same object?

I don't see how this is relevant. A similar thing could be said about every healthy democracy.

I wouldn't put it that way. When the UN was created sovereign states forfeited a part of their sovereignty by becoming members. The UN has grown as ti...

The UN has the authority to intervene even if the intervened state doesn't agree. This would be considered a sanctioned breach of that state's soverei...

I'd like to point out that the UN has a large amount of authority over nations. There's such a thing as state sovereignty, but there's also things lik...

Yes, that's of course the excuse that is put forward. However, it is blatantly obvious that the West Bank Barrier is being used to 1) annex Palestinia...

Under Obama. One example is UNSCR 2334 which was adopted 14 votes to 0 in 2016. The US abstained from voting instead of vetoing it. An excerpt: "... C...

I'll take that as a "no." Take it from someone who has studied and visited both Israel and Palestine as part of an academic education that Israel is n...

I'm not against Israel. I am against decades of human rights violations and breaches of international law. it is Israel who has impeded the right of s...

Have you ever been to Israel?

Compared to when? Incidents occur anywhere, between all kinds of societies. Again, it is the game that you play where you consider this sort of thing ...

I'm not sure what you're getting at. In both cases things haven't worked out. The US has been humiliated in its failure to bring two third-world count...

Now you are just ranting. Here is why you are wrong in the way you frame the problem. Firstly, you assume the violence was anti-Semitic in nature, whi...

The 1929 massacre is indeed a very popular incident which people refer to to justify Zionism. It has been notoriously exploited in pro-Zionist propaga...

I don't see why they couldn't live in Palestine/Israel. They have lived there alongside other religions in relative peace, until people starting getti...