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What security procedure requires annexing more and more of Palestine?
May 30, 2021 at 09:27
What concessions/restoration do you feel Israel owes the people it oppresses, then? Should it at least stop expanding its territory?
May 29, 2021 at 19:57
It reads like a broad spectrum stereotype shotgun to me, not specific to whites. There's definitely some hillbilly white trash in it, but it has a ful...
May 29, 2021 at 18:34
I feel like the very idea of giving a nation credit for not being the worst human rights abuser on the planet is beyond the point of parody. But if yo...
May 29, 2021 at 18:08
I am amazed that you can frame it this way with a straight face! It's discrimination against Israel in the international theatre that's causing the UN...
May 29, 2021 at 16:07
The UN doesn't see it as that clear cut. Nor does Amnesty International - the UN is the UN, Amnesty International is a renowned human rights watchdog....
May 29, 2021 at 08:37
:up: Same for the people of Palestine, since: gives mandate for Hamas to force match Israel. To put it bluntly, Palestine isn't doing very well in thi...
May 28, 2021 at 17:56
I mean there are plenty of thought terminating cliches that would do it.
May 27, 2021 at 18:34
Please try and stay on point. Look at the argument: (1) A people displaced from their historic home ought to be able to return there. (2) The people o...
May 27, 2021 at 17:17
Yes, it just also has the unintended consequence of justifying Palestinian right to return. If deprivation of your people's historic home is the bench...
May 26, 2021 at 19:17
What about 1948 for the people of Palestine ? Completely asymmetrical application of principles.
May 26, 2021 at 18:54
If you can state the math problem verbatim, I'll help you with it if I can. As it stands you've not stated a calculus problem. Try writing using Mathj...
May 25, 2021 at 18:47
I don't know, a discrepancy of 400 civilian deaths is really the tipping point for me. Those 400 civilian deaths would mandate forced eviction of some...
May 24, 2021 at 19:43
I think the essence of @"Baden"'s point is intact: what is the distinction between Palestinians and Southern Irish that would've made the UK bombing c...
May 24, 2021 at 18:39
Yes, like the notification they gave to Aljazeera's headquarters in Gaza city before airstriking it!
May 22, 2021 at 13:38
What metrics would you accept for the comparison? Here are mine, Israel's policy towards Palestine is colonial expansion, an unjust war, not fought in...
May 22, 2021 at 13:35
Factored in.. Killing children receiving trauma treatment? Caused by Israeli policy and military action? Factored in.. If I agree with you in the prec...
May 22, 2021 at 09:17
If someone won't show the due nuance-fu to say something like: "Going through the puberty associated with male natal sex might render an unfair advant...
May 18, 2021 at 21:55
Why are you asking me to clarify the distinction, which you seem to understand, rather than those present whose intentions matter more? I'm gonna step...
May 18, 2021 at 21:30
Yes, in the same manner you're allowed to talk about and reference sexism or racism. :D
May 18, 2021 at 21:04
Careful you lot. If you're arguing about whether, eg, testosterone level and natal sex are in any way determinative of sports performance and the rela...
May 18, 2021 at 20:03
If these scenes - eg the air striking of an Al Jazeera office, the bombing of a hospital, blacking out internet and social media sites - came from ano...
May 16, 2021 at 19:48
What argument for securing the future of the people of Israel would not also apply to the people of Palestine? The latter are also a people of diaspor...
May 16, 2021 at 15:10
Add this to the list of things which totally aren't expansion by conquest.
May 16, 2021 at 11:47
:up: That blog is a goldmine, it gives me the impression that internal squabbles in academia play out very much like they do on the forum. Posturing, ...
May 15, 2021 at 20:51
Disgruntled prof linked
May 15, 2021 at 20:32
Had a look about. Couldn't find it.
May 15, 2021 at 20:06
If it's not appeared after you've got 21 posts, there can be a delay in plushforums updating stuff - it could be that the permission to report posts i...
May 15, 2021 at 19:32
I tried to use mod powers to fix it, it looks like the Twitter user changed their access permissions to non-public.
May 15, 2021 at 19:29
We do have content standards, but the bar is much much lower; both in tone and content; than academic discussion. We want this to be a space where peo...
May 15, 2021 at 19:20
Reply to this post and then check again. You need >20 posts to get the functionality to show up.
May 15, 2021 at 19:09
I realise this is a multipost, but considering that "going off topic" isn't generally against the rules, I cleared the mod queue for the thread. I wil...
May 15, 2021 at 14:34
@"Apollodorus" - this thread is an earnest attempt to engage with the text of Plato's Phaedo, if you are unable or unwilling to do so, take it elsewhe...
May 15, 2021 at 14:27
Below the post you want to report, next to the time it was posted, you'll see a "...", click next to there and press the flag. /uploads/resized/files/...
May 15, 2021 at 08:34
And medicine and biology and ecology and genetics and...
May 14, 2021 at 11:07
I'm quite happy to characterise them as "inappropriate reactions", as it mixes up what counts as a need with the norms they are recognised by, and mud...
May 08, 2021 at 20:13
I think trauma blurs the distinction between the past and the future. The past has a frustrated need in it, the future is lived to compensate. Perhaps...
May 08, 2021 at 14:43
Yes. Heuristics regarding people quickly become idealisations. Applies as much to mysticism as therapy as psychology. I don't think the boundary is th...
May 08, 2021 at 12:52
I guess this brings up what demarcates a need from a tactic. If I have a need for love and respect, is my relationship with my romantic partner a tact...
May 04, 2021 at 20:05
I can need you to be subservient to me. I can need you to play a role which destroys you or others. I can codepend, I can confine, I can dominate. My ...
May 04, 2021 at 17:10
I need this to be false because my anger is redemptive. I need this to be a partial truth because sometimes I must force people to meet my needs. I ne...
May 03, 2021 at 10:38
I tend to delete low effort obviously wrong ones for being low effort. I tend to leave decently written obviously wrong ones up. To my reckoning, we'r...
April 30, 2021 at 18:26
AFAIK open-ness has some discriminatory power regarding conservative political opinion (eg here), but that's a far cry from an individualist causal re...
April 27, 2021 at 16:14
Probably Kalam Cosmological Argument.
April 23, 2021 at 20:39
Welcome!
April 20, 2021 at 21:20
It could be that my use of pace is shite. I used it and in read it as "in deference to", I never even googled the other "in deference to contrary opin...
April 17, 2021 at 21:18
I wouldn't call what I wrote an argument. It isn't a syllogism or a logical form, it's a rhetorical appeal to the alignment of philosophy with purposi...
April 15, 2021 at 20:00
I think it's a pretty philosophical thing to feel like philosophy is insufficient. If it's, as @"Judaka" says, recreational - it can be an art, like c...
April 15, 2021 at 16:59
:up: I'll try and recontextualize. Response to @"Isaac": Translation + stress testing of the bridge translation builds. Like Barret's work on emotion ...
April 13, 2021 at 14:05
@"David Pearce" Hey, I have another question, are there any aspects of the current homo sapiens that you would identify as already transhuman?
April 13, 2021 at 12:45