No, I don't. I want violence to be useful. And what's your "counsel" then? You're accusing me of "enabling genocide" by disagreeing with you. So what ...
Who is doing that? The only person who has said anything along these lines (that I have read) is @"BitconnectCarlos", and basically everyone else here...
What's the "oppressor's camp"? Do it's inhabitants get any say in whether or not they are placed here, or do they become mere bargaining chips for "th...
I don't really understand this line of argument. Are you saying that what the Hamas is doing is both moral and reasonable (from the perspective of ins...
This is what you wrote: This is a pretty specific and extraordinary claim. I'm not "implying" this is questionable, I said so directly. It's simply no...
The Taliban can at least argue that they've been invaded by superpowers twice, so they didn't have much time to consider reforming their ways. This is...
Basically, I see two ways this conflict ends - some new coalition gets to power in Israel (or else the international community forces their hand), uni...
Are they allowed to leave their house without a male guardian yet? I'm sure in another 50 years, they'll have worked hard enough to outlaw marital rap...
Presumably, you're the kind of person who'd disembowel a village chief in front of his wife and children because he accepted rice from the imperialist...
Yes. It's the reverse, I'm saying it's the best move on moral grounds. Nothing is gained from cycles of escalation (except of course power for Israeli...
All true. But this does not somehow make any consideration of tactics and the relation between ends and means superfluous. The results of an escalatio...
Saudi Arabia is ruled by a tiny minority of very rich and powerful men. Are you telling me they're trying? Everyone has their feelings. If that's all ...
How about the Israelis renounce violence as a political tool? Clearly Israel is more powerful and less at risk. Just stop responding with violence. No...
The Saudis? I can't imagine they would. They'll just milk the conflict for their own gains. Oppressed Palestinians are useful to them, as it allows th...
The point is death? For its own sake or what? Yeah, that's just straight up evil in my book. Who is "they" here? Are we treating all Israelis as some ...
Why not? What's the utility of pointless death? I can understand fighting back even if you don't have a chance to win, but not if the people you hurt ...
Yeah you're just putting words in my mouth. But that's par for the course with you. I don't care to repeat all the correct condemnations of Israeli be...
Better to die in silence than take other innocent people with you. Pointless violence, however, definetly is. Hamas isn't fighting oppression. They're...
There is, however, also a problem inherent in treating this as a conflict between "two sides", where we can somehow add up atrocities and murdered civ...
"It's politically sensitive" isn't an excuse for making a claim without evidence. Neither of these articles supports your claim. I didn't try to give ...
I didn't ask you to agree with any such assumption. I posited that in a situation where this is the case, then going "this group has worse outcomes, t...
Your point is that different outcomes mapping to, say, ethnic groups is not a sign of a problem, even if we assume there are no fundamental biological...
The only useable definition of the word "natural" is that it refers to everything that is not in some way consciously guided by humans. Sentiments con...
Because implementing a better system is a question of political power, among other things. According to you, the economic system should always have be...
Based on what though? Why would interests just happen to line up with some unrelated demographic grouping? That'd imply precisely that the demographic...
For a first approximation, that is probably a good strategy though. If, for a given field, you don't think there are any significant biological differ...
That we have sufficient historical evidence for. And slavery in this context is a broad category, which is sometimes difficult to distinguish between ...
How do we know that "equal outcome" isn't concerned with merit or qualification? Equality is a value judgement. It can and usually does include consid...
Do they? That seems to be the kind of vaguely plausible claim people like to use when they have no actual knowledge on the matter. That's just a list ...
So are the individuals who stop our would-be overlord. If everyone is just individuals, then prima facie, any motivation is equivalent, and preventing...
Even if the idea is individualism? Like if I had some kind of weapon that allowed me to capture and control the minds of large masses of people and ca...
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. I understand it more as trying to impact the real economy by regulating the flow of money, but it's difficul...
There isn't one precise mechanism, but e.g. a loose money policy leads to more money going into speculative investments like futures, which affect glo...
Those have nothing to do with "monetary policy" the way I understand it. And governments cannot practically suppress currencies without some very drac...
I don't really see the connection. Monetary policy affects bitcoin just as well, regardless of the "alternative" label. It's after all a big part of t...
I guess the question is: what are they important for, exactly. Sure the technology is interesting, and it's certainly useful if you want untraceable t...
I think it's a matter of framing, specifically whether or not you consider death to be part of life, or whether you consider it the end / absence of l...
I don't think that's convincing. Whenever you make a decision, that excludes all other decisions you could have taken. Being in a similar situation an...
I think this is a really bad argument, because it's plainly obvious that there are a bunch of thing everybody knows are bad ideas and people still do ...
We can do that regardless, if we only wanted to... This seems like a good place to vent about the utter collapse of the German Coronavirus policy. Wtf...
I know this is a joke, but the resource consumption of cryptocurrency and NFTs is a real concern. The amount of processing power uses a lot of energy ...
The reason here is the uniformity of the cosmic microwave background. A slow formation would have given the matter/energy in the universe time to inte...
Is that really true though? White supremacists would certainly disagree and say that being "white", however we want to define that precisely, is very ...
It depends on what "you" we're talking about. From the perspective of the "you" stepping into the machine, every resulting copy is you. But as soon as...
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