RogueAI

"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...

I guess you have to like drinking a lot. Which I do!

. That's funny, my gut feeling is the German pilot is worse. Those German civilians (collectively) ushered in and supported the Nazi's, so screw them....

That's true, but that forces proponents of the conceivability of p-zombies to basically use the "god did it" explanation. That sounds kind of like a c...

I'm sorry, I was mad. Let's back up. I agree with you that slave violence against their masters is justified. What about a slave that kills the planta...

I wonder how they argue p-zombies could develop a language that has referents to mental states.

Right. So then we can't conceive of beings like us, who have the same vocabulary as we do, but with no mental states. They're impossible.

How would p-zombies develop a language that refers to consciousness and/or mental states?

A justification for rape, torture, and murder of children? It sounds like you're not even aware of what Hamas has done. ETA: Reading through the respo...

If someone offered you a million dollars on the condition you could never drink again...I wouldn't take the money.

Yes, this has caused some people to lose their moral compass.

Or you beat the enemy so badly (e.g., Germany and Japan and the American South), they're so sick of war that they're ready for peace.

20% of Gazans have a "very positive" view of Hamas (38% "somewhat positive"), according to this: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/p...

"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotte...

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What should the Allies have done then to relieve pressure on the Russians?

Civilians get killed in war. Should the Allies not have bombed German cities? The strategic bombing campaign was a great help to Russia, since it caus...

Is Hamas smart to release hostages in dribs and drabs? I get the impression every time they do it, they put pressure on Israel for a cease fire.

Yes, I can see how I gave that impression. I have no problems with Muslims, Christians, or Jews, except when their belief systems entail hating on wom...

I despise any group that treats women as second class citizens, whether they be brown, black, or lily white MAGA Republicans.

Who would you prefer babysit your toddler? Israel or Hamas? More to the point, who would you trust as a nuclear power, Israel or Iran?

It doesn't have to be a death cult. The Regime just has to be very desperate, to the point where they start thinking, "a few tactical nukes, strategic...

Yes. That's what worries a lot of people.

We've drifted into a very brittle situation, and we don't think Russia will widen the war because Russia hasn't widened the war, but of course that ca...

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The shithole countries in the Middle East are terrorist-loving human rights abusers on a scale that makes Israel look like a piker. Israel should take...

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Israel suffered the equivalent of seven 9/11's. Any country in that situation is going to retaliate and make sure such attacks can't happen again. Why...

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They're building weapons to fund the war effort. I'm not asking whether they "deserve it", but rather "is it immoral to bomb munition factory workers?...

I was snarky. My apologies.

Really now. You actually have to think about whether America or Nazi Germany should have won?

A) people in the military are trying to make a living too B) people working in armaments factories aren't JUST trying to make a living. They're helpin...

Why is it immoral to bomb workers in armaments factories?

The difference here though is that after WW2 was over, Japan and Germany were done fighting. They were whipped and submitted meekly to the Allies. Wou...

Who you rather have won WW2, the Allies or Axis? It's a really easy question to answer, is it not?

I don't know. Seems pretty on-topic.

And yet, you didn't answer my question: who would you prefer won WW2? Let me answer for you: The Allies. I'm sure you agree. And yet, the Allies kille...

But you would still prefer the Allies had won WW2, right?

We bombed civilians in WW2. Did that make us the bad guys?

In any conflict, I give this question a lot of significance: "Who would you rather live under?" In this case, the answer is obvious: Israel. Nobody he...

The Allies massacred civilians on a level Israel can only dream of in WW2. Yet that did not create a moral equivalence between the Allied and Axis pow...

Do you think a mindless universe is possible? What do you think would happen to this universe if all minds disappeared? Would the stars, galaxies, pla...

Don't they want to annihilate Israel?

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What does your theory have to say about machine consciousness?

What happens to the consciousness when energy is transformed into matter?

Maybe if the racial differences were hard to notice. The racial differences between blacks and whites are very noticeable. This makes it a lot easier ...

There are eight black CEO's in the Fortune 500. That's about 1.5%. Yet blacks make up 12% of the population. Their representation is off by almost an ...

And they pine for the 1950's.