This is a philosophy forum, what do you expect? The way I understand the international law, Gaza is territory of Israel. Unless it's still considered ...
But what does this mean exactly? What lands precisely do they legitimately possess? And what about the people they inherited? Can anyone who happens t...
The development of the US bombing campaign is somewhat interesting as a case study in how the wholesale destruction of cities and the burning of their...
Imho the entire framing doesn't work, because the moral subjects are individual people, not nations. So we have to take into consideration the reasons...
You're clearly angry and trying to "win" the argument, and it shows. You're not convincing this way, and if you care about actually having a useful co...
None of these prove the claim. They all just reiterate the basic fact that Russia is opposed to NATO expansion, which noone denies. You just refuse to...
Disappointing maybe, but also probably the mindset of most people everywhere. "I'm all for helping the poor and destitute so long as it doesn't impact...
The Israeli government announced it's effectively taking all of Gaza hostage until it's civilians are returned, meanwhile starving the place. I'm hone...
Agreed. It's also not clear to me at all how a two state solution would function economically. How would the economic viability of a state of Palestin...
Maybe. But maybe we also need to strengthen care providers. In any event the argument wasn't about what was currently feasible in the US specifically....
But it doesn't claim to be the only possible way to look at society. Cruel domination can easily be natural, but that's not a moral argument. If there...
That makes no sense though. Russia already had a perfectly good frozen conflict in the Donbas. There'd be no way for NATO membership of a country in a...
Starting with a straw man is not good form. Sure, but the problem is they're living in different and increasingly fenced worlds. They no longer have a...
I think internal documents make clear that the British never intended to follow through with the Balfour declaration, since most of their subjects in ...
Well everytime you add fear, pride and some kind of othering - be it by religion or somerthing else - morality ends up trampled in the dirt. What make...
Like everyone else in the same situation, right? An injustice in a long line of injustices. It's not like the British mandate that preceded it was any...
So there's no sign of any deescalation in Gaza. By design or opportunity, it seems like Hamas is throwing itself fully into the war, with the border s...
But given the death toll, will Israeli politicians feel they have any room to maneuver? Israel is used to violence but this attack was on a different ...
Did you take my post as finger wagging? It was intended as a humorous jab. In any event I think scale does matter. They are free to attempt it, we are...
The advantage is that the magical bullets are harder to acquire, so unless you're about to uncover the CIA's secret moon base where they experiment on...
[ So you don't care to back up your claims and instead make a pathetic and unfounded attempt at ad-hominem? I consider this an admission of defeat on ...
Do they? How are you measuring this? China is already a great power. Russia isn't and won't become one. Just selling your oil and gas doesn't turn you...
The election of Trump has kinda soured Obama's legacy for me. It seems evidence that, while a competent administrator, Obama has failed to be a transf...
It's insane to me that the Democratic party did not foresee this situation and make plans right after they won in 2020. It was always clear Biden woul...
The war is kept alive by extremists on both sides with the main intention of staying in power. That's why I find this hard to credit as "freedom fight...
Yeah it's going to make problems worse, but not by as much as a casual scaling up would suggest. The problem is not numbers, but resource use. A few b...
I'm not seeing any indication that we're capable to succeed at the almost miraculous task of switching out energy supply in at most a few decades with...
Isn't that about 80% of the discussion around climate change policy? Arguing about whether, and how much it will damage the economy, and whether it's ...
I think that depends on the context. If, for example, I intend to hand someone my money for investment, I'm not going to wait until it is conclusively...
Assuming you're actually interested in this: Presumption of innocence is explicitly a protection of the individual against the state and meant to hold...
I have to admit, that mugshot is exactly on brand. I wonder how long he practiced for that? I think many have been convinced - or convinced themselves...
I think there's a bit more thought behind this than you credit. Trump knows his audience. He knows they love it when he denigrates and belittles his o...
Sure, but my argument is that we navigate it by using a set of rules that's distinct from utilitarianism - we're using the essentially deontic concept...
That kinda depends on a lot of practical engineering questions that we don't yet know the answers to. Technically fusion could produced a ton of power...
Well it seems to me we're ultimately in agreement then. Animals have no moral standing in a human moral philosophy. The most that can be said about th...
They can't talk. So they cannot contribute to any negotiation about the accepted code of behaviour. Yes, but that means that animals could only ever b...
I should know, I did study law, but thank you for the lesson. I'm not disagreeing with what is the case de lege lata. I'm just questioning whether tha...
I don't find that convincing. I can easily argue that we're really only doing that for reasons of emotional attachment and because we feel uncomfortab...
Rights is not quite the same as respect though. You can unilaterally respect someone or something, but to have a right you need to at least theoretica...
Are you writing a dissertation on Eunice Foote and her experiments? You seem very interested in this specific case. Anyways that should be discussed i...
Who argues that science is a "Sui generis human endeavour"? What does that even mean? Why? You're providing no argument or even some basic angle on di...
Yeah but it's a good cart. A very fine cart. Some people even say best cart. We can all just hope that the conditions of @"NOS4A2" is not indicative o...
The problem I see is that every choice can harm others, even seemingly benign ones, if only in distant and minor ways. This being the case, it would s...
I don't see how that would follow. I do believe that the main emotional reason humans are opposed to inflicting unnecessary pain on animals is that we...
Even that would not work, because I don't think that Biden fully qualifies as human for a Trump supporter. The impression I get from Trump supporters ...
I think this needs to be qualified though by allowing people to choose what they consider well-being. This might involve making the whole world worse ...
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