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Did you type that right? I can't make sense of it.

That's a different issue isn't it? Or can we set Israel on any country that is worse than it on these terms? Get them to colonise China perhaps. Now t...

No, but their land is not ours to give them is it? It's theirs.

It's like a successful marriage. Any marriage that lasts is successful, never mind if the couple exist only for the pleasure of seeing the other suffe...

I don't know. Is there? I hope so.

'Ethnic cleansing' seems more apt than genocide. But ethnic cleansing may be a form of it. From https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/ethnic-cleans...

My response would have been to improve watching the Gaza border. Then, and not as a response Hamas, express some embarrassment for being the beneficia...

I didn't really mean it that way. I meant unintentionally by pissing people off. Nevertheless Hamas is useful as an excuse to continue colonisation. C...

Israel is creating Hamas, not destroying it

I agree with you on that. I think if that were a serious possibility I might fight to oppose it. But that's not an anti-immigration stance. That's an ...

Well it can if it wants, I just don't like it I suppose. I don't really like national identities, except as objects of mockery. But I take your point ...

Oh is that right? Oh well, in that case the Palestinians are racist bastards as well then, just like the rest of us.

The Swede is, arguably, racist, or at least immoral, or perhaps just ignorant (from a lefty perspective). Whereas a Palestinian who objects to illegal...

The British should have invited everyone to Blighty. Build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land, as it were.

Sure, but they didn't seek permission from palestinians did they? (I have no idea if they did or not). It sounds like the good ol' Brits handed out pe...

Interesting point. What about this difference: Israeli settlers are neither economic migrants nor refugees asking permission for asylum. They are colo...

I've seen a few YouTube video on the guys with the black clothes and ringlets etc who say Israel shouldn't exist. They seem really nice and rational. ...

Not really to me, no. Questions can contain false hidden assumptions, be leading, be rhetorical, be impossible to answer coherently etc. But only answ...

Yes, that sounds plausible.

Something else

We need world structures so such disputes can be resolved by a court

I wasn't suggesting any excuse, just questioning the rationale of self defence.

The way to kill an idea is to call it geocentrism or something.

But Israel was more or less safe the day after Hamas' attack wasn't it? Bombing Gaza won't get hostages back, presumably. Israel is now watching the f...

Is the continued existence of Hamas actually in Israel's interests, or at least the more colonialist strand in Israeli politics? Hamas violence can be...

Yeah. 'Attack' seems a much more apt term.

It strikes me as odd that countries invading others outside their borders is frequently, perhaps always, referred to as 'defence'. In chess, attacks a...

Do you not think Israel is guaranteeing the survival of Hamas in some form? I wonder if Hamas can only be permanently stopped by a police force within...

Obviously there's lots of things the poll could have been but wasn't. The point is it's a perfectly good poll. For example, it didn't capture my posit...

I was genuinely confused as to who you meant! Sorry, maybe it's obvious.

Who has the double standard?

Really? How contemporary is contemporary? Most people are monists these days, no?

Love the OP. This is what philosophy should be. Planck cubes? Are we living in Mincecraft?

I think the idea is that suffering goes along, necessarily, with differentiation. And creating a world is nothing other than differentiation, so that ...

Oh I see, that makes sense. Sorry I haven't been following closely.

Is it though? I do things because of the way I feel, it seems to me. So we have the problem of overdetermination. A topic for another thread I think. ...

I broadly agree, with caveats. There's still a bunch of questions left over with my view. I'm interested though, what explanation do you favour?

Right now we don't know how a bachelor could be a married man, but that doesn't mean we won't discover it in the future.

Is there anything you'd like to discuss about this? Or should this be in the lounge?

Sure, that's fair enough, and on topic for this thread.

OK, it seems like your view is a stipulative definition, rather than a theory of something we already agree the is the referent of the term 'conscious...

What about when dreaming?

I don't doubt it. It appears before me unbidden! Either God put it there, or an evil demon, or Banno.

The hard problem of existence?

I have no memory of writing all this. Note to self - practise memory games.

@"Mikie" I think some softer liberal wishy-washy Christians would agree with you. They think all the God stuff is true, but recognise that the imagery...

This characterises a lot of debate on consciousness. Some people really want a functionalist definition, the trouble is that isn't what is meant. If w...

Just reading that now. It's very interesting and easy to read and understand. Many thanks for the link. Might help me understand Apo better. I read a ...

Definitions are given. You can't choose them. Not in a conversation.