Hamas, and many Palestinians, consider the existence ofany Jewish state in "Palestine" to be "occupation" of Arab lands. So I guess it's just endless ...
Yeah, I would agree. Part of the confusion is that some of us are using it in a more religious sense and others aren't. Evil in a religious sense is a...
I understand, and my intention going to this topic was never to specifically advocate for FDR or to defend him against all criticism. In any case, I d...
of course. no, i would never describe the fdr regime during ww2 as "very bad, but not evil" because it's a terrible description. as long as you're not...
Stalin did so much evil that he's completely unredeemable. Stalin's hand was forced once the Germans attacked in '41 so it's not even like he made a h...
No, I don't believe that because oppressive policies in one area can be counterbalanced by good policy elsewhere. We also need to be on watch that the...
If we're talking about oppression in the broad sense then every regime oppresses - it's just a matter of nature and extent. Even if we remove regimes ...
Every regime practices oppression. Every one of them. Apartheid is evil, but Israel is not apartheid. And if you want to condemn ethnic cleansing we c...
No because evil is part of the human condition so the only real way to destroy evil would be to destroy humanity. The best we can do is contain and tr...
Even if the US removed itself from foreign affairs entirely there'd still be plenty of legitimate grounds for criticism - from you and me both. My poi...
It's interesting how you have this conception of institutional guilt - the implication with you is that every US administration is seemingly responsib...
Ok, but presumably you don't think al-Qaeda or ISIS are the good guys. Is there a side that you support in ISIS vs the US? Is there any government or ...
I don't believe Israel is objectively worse from a moral standpoint than Hamas. The US might have more human rights abuses than a smaller terrorist gr...
Finally, a place where atheists can gather and not be bothered by those stupid theists and their sky daddy. A place where science can be celebrated an...
Interesting discussion on laws and enforceability. In my home state of Massachusetts we have a number of antiquated laws that are technically on the b...
Agree 100% and I want to re-post this for visibility. It's interesting you say that - I always try to gauge these things from people. I just won't eng...
I would never pull the "I wasn't talking to you" line with Streetlight, especially in an instance where I directly referenced him. I might give him a ...
Let me explain to you the rules of this game w/Streetlight before you get further involved (coming from a veteran player): -Good deeds or positive ide...
So here's where it gets interesting: Religious scripture here binds the Jewish people, and in this case the teaching is clear - one cannot deliver one...
I'm not aware of any explicit argument that Arendt makes but her tone is very clear in Eichmann in Jerusalem. I 100% understand that these men were in...
Then yeah, your conclusion follows from the logic: If you correctly, 100% understand the reality of the situation and all those stupid wrong people th...
If we want to address Israel then before we address that we need to address our conflicting conceptions of genocide and racism. I find your conception...
Refuting the claim would be very cumbersome and we wouldn't even be able to make it through the claim. For example, let's start with your first exampl...
The responses "misses the point" only if the person agrees with you in regard to your last points -- the points you made about Israel and Rumsfeld. If...
Sure, let's see how political or philosophical discourse occurs without civility. Mods, do we have the green light here to drop civility? Streetlight,...
Then maybe a third changing room might be plausible? I can 100% understand why transwomen wouldn't want to be in men's locker rooms. Transmen in men's...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWgnepX54Lg ^A real life situation where a black woman along with other women encounter a transwoman with a penis in a...
The semantics here are weird but yes, Jewish is an ethnicity but it's more than just an ethnicity in terms of how we normally think about ethnicity. Y...
No, I didn't convert to Judaism. I've been a Jew for 30 years because I was born one and being an atheist doesn't disqualify one from being a Jew. The...
I feel like you've had a bad Christian education here to some extent, is that true? I mentioned earlier how Judaism never really stresses the afterlif...
You don't think there's an objective truth over whether God exists? Last time I checked these religions set forth hypotheses that one will come to kno...
I did look into it a while back, but what happens is once I find that I don't agree with the core premises of a system it generally prevents me from e...
I think it's best to say that no one system has all the answers and that value can be found across many different religious/belief systems. Obviously ...
Absolutely - there's a huge difference between placing a bomb in an unoccupied government building and bombing an Elementary school. Both could be con...
This doesn't make any sense to me. Had anti-Nazi resistance movements ever started wantonly murdering German civilians it would have been publicized a...
Why? What's the reasoning behind this? So people are numbers to be added and subtracted and as brave resistance fighters you're there to do the math c...
Judaism doesn't do this, and I'd be interested to hear from a Christian how pervasive this idea is and what role is plays across different forms of Ch...
Yes, one could take the same principled stand either way. When I say that I made the move to theism, I'm not saying that others are rationally obliged...
In a practical, material sense being a theist changes nothing. As it seems to you and me it doesn't really matter whether the aforementioned man signs...
Yeah, it's fine for other thinkers to have ideas on the government of Israel and to criticize political parties -- I don't care about that. We can all...
Since this topic has been revived I'd be interested in hearing out the case -- as has been claimed earlier (or strongly implied) -- that Arendt would ...
Under this strategy, they would just kill you and replace you with someone else. That's a big part of the logic of totalitarianism - your "noble death...
One is not allowed to rip a child from its mother's arms and send that child to certain death because one is afraid of what the enemy would have done ...
Because their commitment to saving lives at all costs ("cutting off the leg to save the body") led them to collaborate and actively assist in the depo...
I'm not granting your assumption here because it would sidetrack the entire discussion. We are going by Arendt's version where the Judenrat did carry ...
Not a problem, let's keep it friendly. I don't even care whether these men were theists or atheists. All I'm talking about here is the type of reasoni...
It's just different from Christianity or Islam. It's not that hard to grasp. You're Jewish if your mother is Jewish and it doesn't really matter what ...
Some were, some weren't. I don't know the exact breakdown. Everyone can get scared and collaborate to save their own necks. I'm not really talking abo...
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