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They are defending themselves and targeting Hamas. You are conflating civilian casualties caused by Israel's self defence with civilian casualties cau...
May 16, 2021 at 06:30
No arguments as expected.
May 16, 2021 at 06:24
So no arguments from you? As expected.
May 16, 2021 at 06:24
You are not entertainment you are frightening reality. Your "support" for the Palestinians is highly prejudice, completely unbeneficial to them and pr...
May 16, 2021 at 06:21
Any death caused by Israel is murder but firing 1,500 rockets arbitrarily into another country is self defence. Way to redefine reality.
May 16, 2021 at 06:19
Even The Quran acknowledges the existence of Israel and the Jews. They are not colonialists. They are the most victimised people in history forced to ...
May 16, 2021 at 06:18
The only reason not to support Israel is Anti-Semitism. And by the way this is one of the least lethal conflicts in History. Casualties are dwarfed by...
May 16, 2021 at 06:16
Complete and utter lies. Shame on you!
May 16, 2021 at 05:49
"Property is theft"
May 16, 2021 at 05:36
People In Gaza have deliberately had large Families to try and outnumber the Jews. That is a fact. That is child abuse. Land is a limited resource and...
May 16, 2021 at 05:30
Is that your idea of an argument?
May 16, 2021 at 05:28
This what UAE official has to say on the conflict: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1621075141-report-uae-demands-hamas-stop-r...
May 16, 2021 at 05:27
That girl is an actress and you are calling for the extinction of Israel.
May 16, 2021 at 05:25
I am a mixed race Brit. I support Israel 1000% Countries are fictional human inventions created by force. The Arab-Israeli conflict shows what happens...
May 16, 2021 at 05:24
I think death is one of the main reasons not to have children. I believe it to be the one unavoidable harm and death appears to make life pointless wh...
April 11, 2021 at 04:59
Where are you going to be in the future? One hundred years from now? No one exists in the future.
April 11, 2021 at 04:54
I think the question as of why did you something is very interesting. For example you could say "why did you drink that water?" If the person responds...
April 08, 2021 at 04:55
I feel that doing something without a good reason or doing something for a bad reason is nihilistic. For example my parents are religious and I grew u...
April 07, 2021 at 01:05
A reason I oppose religion is because I think it is demonstrably false. Most moderate religious people no longer claim that religion is infallible bec...
April 06, 2021 at 02:41
I don't see the problem here. In order to belive in truth and authenticity you have to believe that they are valid concepts. If you don't care about t...
April 06, 2021 at 02:38
I think there are a lot of reasons not to have children that are all compelling. For example: The Holocaist ( one of my main reasons for not having ch...
April 06, 2021 at 02:29
I think that the things we enjoy do not make us want have children. No pleasurable Experience I have had has made that think I must have children. I t...
April 05, 2021 at 02:38
My guilt is that what I enjoy is clearly created by mass exploitation and inequality. I think your concept of sharing is great but with billions of hu...
April 05, 2021 at 01:47
I think children are on average lovely. But childhood is the smallest proportion of life. People talk about wanting to have a baby or child but not ab...
April 05, 2021 at 01:23
Here is a claim by Richard Dawkins "“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute...
January 24, 2021 at 00:22
One thing that is definitely a harm for all life is death. No one knows what happens after we die. In the Christian theology I grew up with you were e...
January 24, 2021 at 00:19
On the issue of enforceability. In the UK where I live the majority of crimes go unsolved. That is a classic example of how the laws don't enforce the...
January 20, 2021 at 22:13
Those two statements weren't supposed to be paired. The first point I was making that statements like "I own this house" are fictional or "Child abuse...
January 20, 2021 at 22:11
I think conflicts like the Israeli/Palestinian one are going to be difficult to resolve because of the problematic status of claims concerning countri...
January 20, 2021 at 18:21
I think you are conflating rules that people chose to obey as opposed to rules people feel obliged to obey. I don't agree that rule like road laws are...
January 20, 2021 at 18:14
Apparently evolution has undermined function talk and teleology. In evolutionary theory it is easy to explain behaviour as simply roundabout ways to e...
January 20, 2021 at 03:49
This entry distinguishes between Linguistic and Ontological fictionalism. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism/ I would class myself as a l...
January 20, 2021 at 03:43
The difference between this forum and life or society is that we choose to come here and accept the rules. We are imposing the rules on ourselves to a...
January 20, 2021 at 03:35
It depends what you mean? Useful to whom. Why should usefulness to one set of desires take precedence over usefulness to another set of desires? The i...
January 19, 2021 at 00:35
It depends what you mean by going back. Environmentalist would like to see a reduction in the human population and sustainable and more ecologically i...
January 19, 2021 at 00:25
The point is that gravity will it impose itself on you but social structures are imposed by other people based on what appears to be false beliefs and...
January 19, 2021 at 00:17
This question should be aimed at parents. Why create a life? What makes that life necessary to create?
January 13, 2021 at 03:12
It depends what nihilism means. Personally I have found no meaning out of life. But the nature of meaning is a huge topic. If people kill themselves d...
January 04, 2021 at 02:13
I can use the example of veganism here. The impression vegans give is that humans are the main source of animal suffering. However in the wild animals...
January 04, 2021 at 01:37
I have an intuition that some things are good and somethings are bad. I don't know where this comes from and I don't know how accurate it is. I think ...
January 03, 2021 at 23:19
I thought that the point of a physical law was that you could not break it because no exceptions to the rule have been found so it is self enforcing. ...
January 03, 2021 at 23:07
Reason appears to tell us that you can't get an "ought" from and "is". I think reason sometimes amounts to a value system including the idea that we o...
January 03, 2021 at 21:20
Let's take homosexuality as in example. It seems to be a minority occurrence but that doesn't seem to entail it has less validity or value than the ma...
January 03, 2021 at 21:13
I think we have to make weaker moral claims and these would lead to moderation in behaviour hopefully. I don't know if a tyranny has existed based on ...
January 03, 2021 at 20:25
It depends on why you are agreeing on something. Obviously consensus doesn't equal right. Would people agree to agree to rules that they accepted were...
January 03, 2021 at 20:18
That is a good point. Possibly both. But value statements have law like or "ought" like qualities. People say things like "You ought to lose some weig...
January 03, 2021 at 20:12
I don't know who parents think is responsible for suffering. The only way human suffering can occur is by creating more humans. There is a lot of suff...
January 03, 2021 at 16:43
I think a child of a parent is in the ideal place to judge the ethics of the actions that created them. If there was a rape you wouldn't ask the perpe...
December 19, 2020 at 21:00
I think the parent child dynamic is problematic. The child exists solely because of her parents desires and so this is a very unequal one sided relati...
December 18, 2020 at 01:14
I find the context of the reported happiness problematic. You mentioned the alleged odds of a child being happy using one country but that is not repr...
December 18, 2020 at 01:10