One concept that needs to be addressed is that "trans woman" can mean virtually anything physically from Mike Tyson to Blaire White. As long as the Ty...
Sure, and the trolley problem is a fringe but interesting case. We can play around with the number saved. It leads us to other questions like: Is murd...
Popper says: So, on Popper's view, we do let the intolerant fester for a bit, as long as they can be kept in check by the public (and rationality clai...
It's proper to allow free speech and inquiry, but Popper makes an interesting point when he says It's really a matter of keeping them in check by publ...
Sure, we can use other reasons to try to convince the non-believer. We could even appeal to his moral system, assuming he has one. Even in that best-c...
I've already said that I see some merit or legitimacy in other reasons to not, e.g., commit murder, but the only one that truly gives murder the quali...
Yes, the side effect (deaths of the innocents) is unintended; therefore, the innocents are not murdered by the bomber, but rather killed. It functions...
Even if the bomb is dropped intentionally on a legitimate target with the knowledge that innocents are inside and that death will likely result, it is...
I think one could kill the innocent and not be wrong. Anscombe's paper on the doctrine of double effect really hammered home this point for me. She'll...
If I were to ask you to give your fundamental reason why murder is wrong, what would you say? For me, it's probably because God/the Bible/the universa...
In that case, at most, the moral indignation would be only instrumentally rationally justified. Of course, there's rationality beyond instrumental rat...
We need to distinguish between different types of rationality. Regarding instrumental rationality, certain decisions are definitely favored over other...
I think that's right. I see fighting terrorism as instrumentally rational in that it preserves Western civilization and our religious heritage. Aquina...
The deliberate murder of innocents can sometimes be understood as a form of resistance. A popular slogan today you'll see at protests is "You don't ge...
I altered my post. The discussion can continue but in a different capacity. You become like a priest to them, trying to get them to see the light. It'...
You can continue; it just turns into a different type of discussion. Now, you're trying to curb them from their view rather than engaging in objective...
For me, it's when certain moral lines are crossed. When one side condones or mitigates the deliberate murder of innocents, I tune out and ignore them....
Twelve months is the max. Not everyone stays the full term. The word here is 'Gehenna,' the same one Jesus talks about in the gospels and we would tra...
Ok, let's say we go with penance. "I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance." If penance is a duty, then sinners are still bound by duty. W...
Ok. So you're going Greek -> Latin -> English. Why not just do Greek -> English like most translations? The Greek is there. The earliest Greek transcr...
This is the common Jewish view. Some souls are beyond repair; others can be purified and brought into the divine presence. The truly wicked will face ...
Infernalism is absent in Jewish tradition. As I understand it, the souls of the truly wicked will be annihilated (those whose souls are beyond purific...
What is your idea of Zionism, then? Any ethnic group in the Middle East must be able to defend itself, and this entails statehood. Relying on Arab nat...
Accuse me of islamophobia all you want; I am not an apologist for murder. I don't care if that murder was in 1948 or 2023. You will never find me supp...
What Hamas did on 10/7 was evil in its purest form. Yet, there is a movement that sympathizes with and supports that evil. So call me stupid; at least...
If violence is a necessity of life, then so it is for the Zionists as well. If the Palestinians have a right to defend their land, then so does Israel...
Yes. I remember in Samuel when David's infant son dies, and this is attributed to his sin with Bathsheba. I watched a lecture some time ago that claim...
Please do tell me more about rights. Is there a right to build terror tunnels packed with munitions all across Gaza? A right to murder one's neighbor ...
It really is; I totally get it. I think the problem comes when Jews are no longer understood to be Palestinians but rather something foreign. I think ...
Exodus generally has a folkloric quality about it. You'd be hard-pressed to find a biblical scholar who defends the idea of a 1.5-2 million person exo...
Canaan is not part of Arabia. Therefore, by definition, there cannot be an "indigenous Arab population" in Canaan. There have always been non-Israelit...
Name one what? American or visaed deportee? These people are given documents, but their rights are not equivalent to those of citizens. You seem hazy ...
We aren't deporting Americans; we are deporting guests in this country who are invited in and proceed to spit in the face of their hosts. I mean depor...
Between BLM, harassing Jewish students on campus, campus riots, and this wave of Tesla vandalism, it couldn't be more apparent to me that Democrats ar...
Not at all Jewish, but closer to the message of the gospels. Some Christians do consider Jesus as "peak Judaism" though so it could fit. But are there...
What do you think Nietzsche would make of the great nobility, wealth and grandeur of King David and Solomon? Or how it is written "How beautiful are y...
You say obviously, but I've read a fair bit of ancient Jewish lit and this isn't really a theme that appears much if at all. The stronger theme is car...
Man, I'm just trying to step into your world, that's all. Learn a bit about the Jews. So I guess it goes something like this: The slaves in Egypt star...
Ok so during their time in slavery the Jews began hating all that is beautiful and noble. I'll stop here because I know better than to question your B...
Sounds more like the Gospel to me. In any case, I would love to ask Nietzsche when the Jews began espousing such a message. Given that I don't see thi...
You write as if you work in an IDF command center. :roll: How would you know the breakdown between innocent civilian and plain clothed terrorist in a ...
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