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Attempts by Europeans to impose "universal rights and liberal principles" by colonizing and coopting non-Europeans for the last half-millennium was an...

I'm claiming that Allied war crimes were morally equivalent to Axis war crimes insofar as they were both war crimes. Your special pleading is what's "...

Yes. What makes actions "war crimes" is that, to begin with they are not self-defensive, they are gratuitous, etc.

:100: The Allies certainly committed their share of war crimes (e.g. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki ...)

I guess it's also lost on you that you're not making sense.

In other words, more blaming the victim. :roll:

And so, with respect to my previous post, what's your point about Philo Judaeus?

:up: And the appended links to videos (which you've ignored) do not corroborate Coates' "personal experience" of "the occupied territories"? :chin: ht...

IIRC, the Roman Empire, beginning(?) in the 1st century BCE and culminating in the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church and its 4th century CE canonica...

https://youtu.be/AW55J2zE3N4?si=21Us0av-Evnfqz_P (A-side single) https://youtu.be/LEHmEC9aWis?si=CrObJWEYReGh67je "Love Me Do" (2:23)* B-side single, ...

Which "God"? How is "fundamental truth" distonguishable from truth itself (or not-fundamental truth)?

:up: On the post before my previous one I have linked two other posts containing three videos of other informed commentors further corroborating Ta-Ne...

Well, you're entitled to your opinion ...

One American writer's experience and reflections on Israel's 'Jim Crow democracy' ... https://youtu.be/_df_u7yJj3k?si=m9AyFqfX6xTzSdFd https://thephil...

The making of the last(?) Beatles' recording... https://youtu.be/APJAQoSCwuA?si=Sm_S06nfUpl9kuA2 1Nov23 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comm...

:smirk: i.e. mismanagement rationalized by misinformation ...

IMHO, the common denominator is a structural lack of economic democracy (i.e. they are "democracies"-in-name-only).

:up: :up: One must somehow choose a set of 'categorical axioms', so to speak, as non-Euclidean geometers have done in order to explore both possible a...

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Once again, for all to see, you refuse to succinctly answer my direct questions of your "idiosyncratic" – problematic & confused – statements (re: the...

"Allow" or "delay" what? Oh, that. I don't expect "financial elites" will "allow" it any more than junkies & drunks "allow" themselves to become addic...

Could you rephrase what you're asking?

Given (3) accelerating global climate change, (2) persistent proliferation of WMDs and (1) the ascendancy of anti-democratic, reactionary populisms in...

If that were so, then you would have given "detailed answers" instead of just more of your usual run-on gibberish. The fact is, Gnomon, you're intelle...

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Is that it? I thought we "hate" them for their nativist hatred of those "damn dirty darkies" (i.e. howling about "Eurarabia", etc).

#2 Consider this equation-free gloss on the Hartle-Hawking No-Boundary proposal (alternative to BB cosmology) ... https://science.howstuffworks.com/di...

Refreshing honesty with which I can't help but agree, BC. The tragic legacy of centuries of Eurasia's "Great Game" is today's realpolitik world "gover...

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#2 Given that sound arguments cannot be raised on the following basis, does it ever make sense to 'speculatively interpret' (i.e. philosophically, or ...

Is it "metaphysics" or just the lazy habit of reifying abstractions?

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And those "other bodies" are just "experiences" (i.e. "representations") generated by "the I" (as per the OP), no? :roll:

Okay, again I ask So you are a (non-Cartesian :roll:) substance dualist after all, Gnomon, as you distinguish between "act of creation" and "creation"...

It's the culmination of tautologous premises #1-5.

This particular ethical question – either the OP or your revision – is conditioned by some political situation. Thus, my initial response .. https://t...

"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose. War is merely t...

Without knowing the political context of these hostilities, any answer would be merely academic.

:100: Tautology. (See my reply to #1.) How do you/we know this is the case? (See my reply to #3.) Solipsism.

I'm quite familiar with the writings of Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel et al. The crimes of oppressed-populations (i.e. the dispossessed) are ...

I think my posts throughout our discussion have been clear enough, Bob. Again, I find the OP is incoherent for the reasons given. You're not persuaded...

Clarification: so you are a substance dualist? If not, what non-trivially distinguishes "physical events" from "metaphysical interactions"? If so, how...

Yep, that's his usually m.o.

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Again: philosophical statements. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/847527