Brett

Baden makes a lot of sense,but I also think if you feel energised by it into taking some action then it’s a good thing. Action is always worth it I th...

Nice work.

I still have a problem with expression. It sounds inadequate to me. Conveying experience is better for me. But that still feels inadequate, but if tha...

I would agree with you. But expect posters to jump about the definition of “just”.

Or too inadequate. I think some experience is required to do this. I don’t know what would contribute to that experience. Even with experience maybe o...

In 1965 Martin Luther led a march from Selma to Montgomery. At some point he feared there would be real violence ahead and turned the march around. He...

From what?

And you just take examples that serve your purpose.

Dirty.

First of all you brought up the word disgusting. I said it was a luxury to sit around theorising about means and ends. Of course you can have an opini...

Why bother with leaders of evil countries. There’s no debate there about their intentions. It’s not just world leaders who must make decisions based o...

So all decisions made by all politicians are corrupt? Was the decision to send convoys from the US to Britain, carrying men and equipment, knowing tha...

It’s not accurate. You’ve chosen only to look at politicians. What about politicians in wartime, the military who decide where to deploy soldiers, bud...

That’s an easy generalisation. Once again you are unlikely to have to make such a decision.

Isn’t it a luxury to sit around theorising about this idea and very likely never, ever having to make a decision, and yet there are those out there wh...

I’m sure there’s meaning there but I don’t get it.

But the gallows doesn’t stop that.

Like I said, if it’s all based on a belief in God then I can’t really engage with this idea of heaven being a reward. I would say balanced and leaning...

I’m not sure if “expression” is the right word in all this. It’s an inadequate word, it might even be a lie, being used to justify something. That par...

I don’t really want to stir this up again, but it got me thinking. I’ve tried many mediums and forms to try and capture (for better use of a word) my ...

Well I like that one. Edit: but you still messed up the grass a little.

Does that suggest they are essential figures in history or culturally?

Or it could happen in a moment of history when a dynamic action moving forward is required to avoid degeneration. Edit: degeneration; I don’t think th...

Anger = natural tendency Civility = free will applied, creates cultural styles Not necessarily. Not all behaviour can be learned. Cultural norms are l...

I understood your post to mean us and animals. Embedded in culture was the point. Your post suggests that we are our culture. That was what I could no...

Are you talking about modern humans or human nature since they stood on two legs? At what stage do you think a desire for happiness entered the pictur...

I just want to clarify this. You mean that in order for free will to exist, to be given it by God, we must be evil and good, there must be two opposit...

I can’t really look at this through the idea of God creating man. So i suppose I shouldn’t be here. I can’t think of anything that’s only bad. So when...

As soon as someone starts on definitions I know the conversation’s over.

Not my words, yours.

But meanwhile real wars are going on. But it doesn’t happen, does it? That has never stopped a war. You’re talking constantly in terms of defence. Tha...

Forget nuclear in this conversation. That’s just a means of smothering the conversation. We’re talking about military action to win not just as defenc...

Aspirational has nothing to do with reality. Hitler was never going to sit down over a cup of tea anymore than Bin Laden was.

Nowadays? Let’s not just talk as if it’s only western democracies who might engage in war.

But it doesn’t work like that, does it? Otherwise there would be no war.

So we only train soldiers for defence, is that what you mean?

I don’t know enough about this to take it any further.

Why difficult?

A peace keeping force? That’s pure politics.

Then the premise of being battle ready for defence doesn’t work. Not that Britain was battle ready by any means. Your example of Poland can be used in...

Are you suggesting the police and military perform the same purposes?

What can I say? I guess I was lied to. But that’s not my impression, nor is it from the reading I've done. When was the last time you saw that happen?...

How do you know that? I think they’re trained to win. That’s not the same at all.

I don’t think it has a function for the viewer. It doesn’t help except add another patina to the intellectual or concept level. I do think it’s a cura...

We don’t really know why humans murder. If we don’t know that, or can’t reach agreement, then I can’t see why we can say other primates don’t murder.

The few soldiers I’ve spoken to, and these are special forces, want to go to a war. That’s what they trained for, not sitting around doing exercises. ...

Yes of course. But that’s not really my point. What I mean is that acts of evil are not necessarily caused by outside influence , or culture. Otherwis...

Well I think that contributes towards my feelings about natural tendencies. And it’s the damage done to people by childhood abuse that makes it diffic...

That’s interesting. I guess we can acquiesce to what happens or try to have an effect.

I guessing that half the wars have been about defence.