We've established it was a misunderstanding. Most people recognize this and move on. "Dogshit illiterates" aren't to blame either for why you're miser...
Tbh, and this goes beyond philosophy and I'm not trying to be intentionally mean, but you just sound like an honestly miserable person. I've had disag...
The reason I responded that way was because you said you felt a tinge of self-disgust when other Jews were acting poorly. I just didn't understand why...
Alright then, in any case I think we're both on the same page that people do shitty things then. I'm not going to justify everything that Israeli Jews...
Tim, you "win" by not responding to this. Yes, Zionists + Promise land = ethnic cleansing is true in just the same way that BLM + Police reform = Whit...
Yeah that does sound kinda shitty. Guess there's shitty people everywhere. I don't feel any self-disgust though and I don't see why I would. If every ...
What is upsetting about Jews parading around with the Israeli flag? I get that it can be provocative to Palestinians, but what exactly is wrong with i...
I do know a few Jews who are openly pro-Palestinian and while these Jews will likely be ostracized from religious communities if they are vocal in the...
Great, and I'm here to discuss the flesh and blood murder of Jews who have not faced this type of hate since Nazi Germany. Glad we could partake in th...
Do you see a moral difference between: a) Firing rockets targeting aggressors who have already fired rockets onto civilian populations with the knowle...
Then you don't have an attitude towards the deliberate murder of civilians under the banner of military action. This is why it's difficult for us to c...
Can you please answer my question about the Allied bomber? Otherwise I just don't know what your attitude towards military action is. Targeting the Is...
Do you have a better idea, then? Is it just that all soldiers are war criminals and that everyone who partakes in war is guilty? Is that really the be...
No, all I said was in some instances war is justified and in during warfare or military action intention does matter. That's all I was seeking to esta...
I agree that war is awful, disgusting business and that it makes monsters out of those who engage in it, but I also believe that sometimes it is neces...
Well, at least you're following your reasoning to its logical conclusion. I'm curious though, lets say you're in charge of the US or UK during WWII......
No, it's not. If that were true then every general or commander would be a war criminal because civilian casualties are inevitable in war. Bombing of ...
If you're going to charge me with defending the murder of children then I can charge you defending the murder of the elderly Israeli Jews killed by Ha...
You never mentioned the Israeli/Jewish victims of the rocket attacks in your posts, why is that? Elderly Israeli Jews have been killed by Hamas rocket...
Alright it's been like 10 years since I've read Dostoyevsky so bear with me here. Yes, Dostoyevsky is a fundamentally religious thinker and while we s...
Namely, financial independence from an employer. It basically means that you have enough saved up or in investments that you don't need to work unless...
Just curious, and I'm not looking for an argument or a serious discussion here but I am curious: In a capitalist society, is financial independence a ...
But can't you opt out of it? What if I voluntarily choose to abandon that because I want to do something else right now? It's my free choice after all...
What would you say about a single parent who was mid-way through feeding their infant and then decided to "opt out" of this arrangement? Are people fr...
That's pretty radical; I'd call myself an individualist but I'm not really with you here. If you have good parents, for instance, who raise you right ...
It was really the best that I could do with your response. If that's your observation about humanity, then I'm sorry but the people you're around are ...
I think so. I'm a Jew in a community where liberal Christians are the majority and I'm confident that they would condemn any act of blatant anti-semit...
Call it a town. All communities have majorities and minorities, it's just a matter of the criteria. In this example the community doesn't know anythin...
I think that's a reasonable response, and I think a good description of this response would be that you're socially distancing yourself, which I would...
I agree with Tzeentch that most people aren't "tilted" towards evil, but the right situations or circumstances can allow us to see sides of ourselves ...
Lets put you in the neighbor's shoes here. Lets say one of your neighbors - an acquaintance - comes to you with incontrovertible proof that another on...
Yeah, we can tolerate it. I'm certainly not saying we should lynch the neighbor or attack the neighbor's house with molotov cocktails in the middle of...
:100: Yeah, I think we gotta ostracize. It's on the community to do so, and I'm not calling for a legal expulsion here as other posters has insinuated...
Woah, you're coming down to the right of me here - how about that for a change of pace? You're usually to the left of me. I understand wanting to take...
I'm not referencing some real event here - my situation is entirely hypothetical and in the situation that I envisioned the community is not racist or...
Sorry, but for $100mm the guy on the tracks is toast. With $100mm you could save countless lives and leverage that money in enormous ways to make real...
In my imagined scenario, the community as a whole is not racist. The racist is in the minority with his views. I also purposefully didn't specify whic...
If we're going by the cockroach example, I wouldn't want them around my house whether I saw them or not. I just wouldn't want any cockroaches near my ...
:100: This is more or less the ancient Greek approach to things - it's a little more practical in contrast to later philosophy, especially 19th centur...
Oh nice I use Nexo too. I haven't heard of anyone having problems with Nexo, but you always gotta be on your toes because custodial risk is definitely...
I think the profit motives drives a lot of human behavior, and especially economic activity, but it's not everything. There's nothing wrong with seeki...
Yeah, true. The root is Judeo-Christian, but society just largely takes it for granted today and if you ask people why they hold that view a lot of th...
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