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No. Are you claiming Nazi Germany was a civilized country? We could argue about Japan after I see your answer on this one.

Possibly. It would have to be done very carefully and legally, though. Countries have duties to their own citizens that go way beyond duties to innoce...

Also, I wonder what kind of jamming hats people could wear to thwart it?

Yeah, I played around with it a lot when I first discovered it.

That's a good point. This is heartening: "The 2019 Arab Youth Survey, published on Tuesday, reveals that attitudes to religion and its role in society...

There probably is a limit to how far from a person's skull the sensors can be, no matter how good they are. For example, past a certain point, radio s...

Ah, so it's a question of scale, is it? What do you think Hamas would do to Israel if they were in charge of a Germany-sized country, hmmm? I think we...

The Allies killed untold numbers of children with indiscriminate bombing. Is your claim then that the Allies weren't morally superior to the Axis?

I see. So Hamas gets to commit civilian atrocities, but when Israel starts bombing them while they hide behind human shields, Hamas runs to the refs a...

I don't hope Palestinians get killed anymore than I would have hoped German civilians were killed in WW2. If some of those German civilians that were ...

I've made an ethical argument: both Israel and Hamas kill innocent people. Israel stands for democratic rule and protection of women and minorities. H...

So this is not a hard question to answer. Yes, you would prefer to live in a world where Israel is in charge. The world is a better place without Hama...

"Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip show a little less consensus but the overall majority supported the attack. A mass of 63.6% said that they supp...

Israeli lives are more important than Palestinian lives. British lives were more important than Nazi lives, and American lives were more important tha...

As I have often pointed out here, if both sides are killing civilians, as happened in WW2, it is important to look at what both sides stand for. That ...

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If mass rape and beheading of babies is Hamas's idea of "resistance" then Israel will beat the shit out of them and any peoples that choose to be gove...

You become one with the godmind? I don't know for sure.

Because I think it is one. I don't think non-conscious non-mental stuff can produce minds and consciousness.

I think this is all a dream, but it's a remarkably persistent and painful dream that I'm currently unable to wake up from. So I'll continue to eat dre...

It's America's fault MidEast countries treat women and minorities like shit? How do you figure that?

There are over 300 million guns in the U.S. It's ridiculously easy for criminals to get their hands on one. Until that changes, I'm also going to have...

Sure there is. If I'm an elderly man, I'm weaker than a young burglar breaking into my home. However, if I have a gun, the playing field becomes much ...

If you think Nazi death camp inmates are wrong to rise up against their exterminators, I don't know what to tell you. Your moral compass is so off fro...

"“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,...

I think it's real too. Leftists have always had a soft spot for oppressed peoples, and Israel, with it's vastly superior military, can't help but come...

I think it's real. Everyone knows Jewish people. Their country is similar to ours. They don't hate women or gays. They don't revel in the slaughter of...

"While religiosity and partisanship do play a part in how Americans view each side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is important to note that s...

Wars of attrition are not fought to the last man standing, they are fought till one side loses the will to fight and disengages, as the U.S did with V...

Well, Trump went to the Ivy League.

I think there's only one here.

That's a good question. Consciousness as information processing would seem to lead to some variation of panpsychism. I personally think there is no in...

Is an abacus falling through the air, the beads moving this way and that, processing information? Does it have experiences?

I agree with you here. The world is interconnected, and America can't do it alone. We need allies to contain countries like Iran, Russia, and China. W...

I started worrying about American democracy when Republicans went off the deep end after Obama was elected. I think they saw the writing was on the wa...

I'm sure there are places that have less corruption than the U.S. I'm not sure their system would work for a country as large and diverse as the U.S. ...

Which democracies did you have in mind?

Do you mean other democracies that were rescued by America at some point in their past?

I'm not clear on what you mean. You want to sanction and discourage politicians from lying. We already have libel and slander laws. Apparently, you wa...

I have no problem with fraud and libel laws, but you said Who's going to do the sanctioning and discouraging, if not government?

Who's going to be the arbiter of truth? Government?

The American system certainly has staying power- 200+years and counting. The system can be amended to add safeguards against someone like Trump again.

You can't win against quislings. It's just a game of whack-a-mole; every time you knock down some bullshit claim, they pop-up with another one. Then, ...

So you think the inmates at Sobibor death camp were wrong to rise up?

You can't make an omelette...seriously though, Germany and Japan suffered civilian casualties many orders of magnitude higher than what Israel has dis...

The UN would be the closest thing. I was making a point, though, that the moral thing to do (on some views of morality) is to continue to let Israel c...

Partly. From a consequentialist/utilitarian point of view, we have to look at it like: Two groups have valid claims on a piece of land. What will each...