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But we should reward land to people who would treat women and LGBTQ people like dirt? Until the Arab countries stop dehumanizing women and minorities,...

Any American or Israeli leader that has a 9/11 or 10/7 happen to them and does not plan for immediate retaliation would be removed from office. Is the...

I'll still vote for Biden over Trump, but let's not pretend things have gone well in the last four years. There's a reason Biden is losing to Trump in...

The world has gone to shit under his watch. Afghanistan was a humiliating debacle. The border situation is a festering wound. The Democrat NY mayor sa...

I read an article that Biden could be replaced at the convention. That the delegates are not legally bound to vote for him, regardless of what happens...

Politicians support Israel because the public supports Israel, older people in particular. Also, there are good practical and moral reasons to support...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bernie-sanders-rejects-progressives-call-for-cease-fire-in-israel-conflict-hamas-has-got-to-go/ Right on, Bernie.

I don't think Biden will be the nominee. If he gets forced out at the convention in favor of someone like Newsom, nobody will shed a tear. Nobody like...

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It depends on what the goals of those countries are. Are they expansionist? Are they threatening other Western countries and/or countries that are fri...

No, it's not. The Allies were morally superior to the Axis. Full stop. That's one of the clearest real-life moral cases we have. The Nazi's were so ba...

OK, so there is a moral equivalence between Axis and Allies viz-a-viz war crimes, but the war crime moral equivalence does not create an overall moral...

But there wasn't a moral equivalence between the Axis and Allies. Are you claiming the Allies were just as bad, morally, as the Axis? That's absurd.

Let's go with war crimes then. Does the committing of Allied war crimes entail a moral equivalence between the Allies and Axis?

So the Allies didn't commit genocide against Axis populations.

Did the Allies commit genocide against populations of Axis powers?

Ain't that the truth.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/covid-lockdowns-big-fail-joe-nocera-bethany-mclean-book-excerpt.html A good article about the lockdowns. As mu...

What would the world be like if either group was in charge? One side would create a democracy that respects women and LGBTQ rights, and the other woul...

What would that evidence look like? How do we go about verifying something like panpsychism? It's not possible to "get outside" our own minds. We can ...

That's a risk any country takes when going to war, but what would you recommend Israel do? Suppose you were president of Israel. What would your respo...

Of course!

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-official-says-group-will-repeat-oct-7-attack-twice-and-three-times-to-destroy-israel/ If that is ac...

Even if there's no survival benefit to consciousness and natural selection doesn't apply? Maybe so. What about if panpsychism is true? An electron's c...

Isn't there another option besides "magic"? Is it possible consciousness appeared when a certain amount of information processing in brains was presen...

If a scientist has no idea when X first appeared in creatures, I'm going to be leery if he then claims that X is certainly a product of evolution. Do ...

Do you think consciousness is a physical thing?

I was using "we" to loosely mean "people". From what I gleaned from a Google search, eyes first appeared 500-600 million years ago. Now, you claim tha...

Usually (or always?), when we say a feature evolved, we have some idea of when it first appeared on the scene. If consciousness is a product of evolut...

The implication here (correct me if I'm wrong), is that neurons exist outside the mind and there is some mind-independent stuff that neurons are made ...

Yes, the U.S. treated Native Americans horribly. Does that mean that Native American tribes would be justified killing civilians and/or American soldi...

I agree. America stole Native American lands fair and square and would no more tolerate an armed Cherokee uprising anymore than Israel tolerates Hamas...

As someone once said, "elections have consequences." Also, lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Of course you don't.

I'm OK calling them a second-world country surrounded by shitholes. It doesn't really take away from the point that Israel is a democracy where gays a...

Like Germany and Japan in 1945.

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"LGBTI people suffered systemic discrimination and violence. Consensual same-sex sexual relations remained criminalized with punishments ranging from ...

"The United States is appalled that the Iranian Ambassador in Geneva may serve as the Chair-Rapporteur of the Social Forum, an annual meeting in Genev...

The thought experiment is unanswerable because the motivations of the warring groups are unknown. There's not enough information to make a moral judge...

The OP asked if there is a moral equivalence between two groups. That's impossible to determine without knowing why they're fighting, hence my point: ...

Really? Allied soldiers fighting the Nazi's weren't aware they were on the right side? They (and the world) only realized this after the war was over?...

Some sides are right and some are wrong. The North morally trumps the South in the American Civil War (the North was morally superior), agreed?

How passive aggressive of you. Obviously, this is directed at me. You should have the courage to answer my questions and accuse me directly.

No, it's not, because that's not how the real world works. If two groups are fighting, it is often the case that one side's goals are morally repugnan...

Could you just answer my question? If your kid has to die in a war, does it matter to you what the cause he was fighting for is?

You can't look at two warring groups in a vacuum. Why they're fighting is as important as how they're fighting. Both the Allies and Axis did horrible ...

IMO, you have to look at what the groups are fighting for. What are their goals? In WW2, both sides deliberately killed untold numbers of civilians. D...

Would you rather have your son killed fighting for the Nazi's or fighting against them? Dead is dead, right? Except it's not really. If it is my kid's...