Benkei

It's all in what I wrote. Maybe quote the whole thing and read it again? National identity is bullshit. It's not about the people at all. Just random ...

Spoken like a true nationalist. Except, of course, the nation is a specific power structure leveraging a national (often ethnic or cultural) identity ...

Sounds like bias to me. One wonders why. Maybe you can respect my own experience and accept I'm telling the truth. I do work there after all.

Grossly exaggerated. Just because most Dutch people can speak Dutch and Amsterdam is a tourist destination, doesn't make it an English-speaking city. ...

:vomit: Xenophobic, right extremist government to be installed in the Netherlands. I want to move.

Since when is being critical about policy choices being "anti-"? NATO has and will continue to do many things wrong as long as the West isn't committe...

So no obligation to do it but let's do it any way. As far as the threat to former Eastern European states was concerned. NATO was doing fine when it w...

I don't think so. Only when those security interests are expressed through policy action that extends power over foreign countries. But just investing...

Well, somebody is going to have to make that choice whether it's a single person or group of people together. My point is that these theoretical examp...

I used your feedback to rewrite this. Do you think this is better? I'm unsure because it's a pretty "rational" rewriting instead of free creativity. A...

There's no fact of the matter but I try to have a more or less consistent approach to morality which is broadly informed by virtue ethics and the idea...

That's what they call a false dichotomy because this rarely occurs in real life. Even rarer when there's a villain we can point to who manoeuvred us i...

I would agree "facts, motives and reasons" are not necessarily moral justifications. They could be though. I can express the belief of the existence o...

It's not about law though.

I'm not sure I understand the question. To further explicate what I mean with the sentence I quoted: Law is not about morality. Statutes of limitation...

We already know you have the moral backbone of a jellyfish so no need to come up with increasingly unrealistic mind games to try to break someone else...

You gather wrong. It's also off topic. Unlike Israel nobody here is defending Myanmar either. That would illicit a response in whatever thread that wo...

It's very simple. You tend to teach your kids this: two wrongs don't make a right. So no. I would never commit to war crimes or torture for that matte...

You're confusing law with morality.

You do love your red herrings.

The relevant part was the torture and executions but nice cherry picking I suppose.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts But but but... Hamas!

Funny how some here say 'the end justifies the means' and then complain about Hamas in another thread. War crimes are never justified.

1. All religious people are idiots invariably holding beliefs that are unwarranted (eg. there's no proof for the existence of god(s)) or are contradic...

That happened a while ago already. There were several decisions that have resulted in me categorically refusing the application of any US state law wh...

Let's not confuse two threads. The imperialist interpretation I'm referring to has been mostly forwarded by @"ssu", which I'm replying to. I take it a...

I think it's clear Ukraine has been a focal point of geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West for at least two decades. A few key events: NAT...

I was looking for threads on Glyphosate and this is the only thing. It's huge in the Netherlands and EU currently. The answer is a resounding; "yes". ...

Hate who exactly? All Palestinian civilians apparently.

pfff... Zionists don't take them seriously and obviously you don't either. Don't murder (Palestinian civilians). Don't steal (land). And unlimited adm...

Your reply is unhinged as it doesn't relate in any way to what I said.

There's no Palestine. Dumb observation as a result.

I already dealt with this nonsense claim and not going to do it again. Nice to see you consider all Palestinians terrorists which means I have zero re...

The double standard is to say colonisation is wrong but to support Israel, to say oppression is wrong but to support Israel, to say human rights are u...

Q.e.d. The rest is a red herring.

Excellent rebuttal. Oh wait, it isn't. As a European this idiotic tribalism to discount sources is really funny.

Vacuous.

Of course not, they can stop oppression and apartheid any day. They chose not to. And that makes Israeli leadership and those who support their morall...

a load of text to pretend you think deeply about this issue when your analysis doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. It's ridiculous.

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You keep looking at this as if Israel is the victim. They're not. It's both aggressor and oppressor. A coloniser. It would sooner be the other away ar...

Nobody in this thread. Edit: in any case, as long as Israel refuses to negotiate Hamas' goal will be the total liberation of Palestine yes. But they h...

That's just an exaggeration. There's no existential threat. Nobody in his right mind is demanding the dismantling of the Israeli state. The extent of ...

That's not even close to what I said though. Israel is there to stay. That's not the problem at all.

The crime, in their eyes, is that such land was taken from them by a coloniser (the British) to be promised to another coloniser (zionist Jews, later ...

Quite obviously there are limits to how resistance can be executed. 7 Oct was over the line. But as pointed out before: Be prepared for it to happen a...

That's how it works when one party is oppressed and the other is oppressor. That has nothing to do with identity.

Prior to the treaty of Westphalia sovereignty over territory wasn't mutually recognised. So while you may have consistent borders due to the facts on ...

Not as it's understood in political history. A country is definitely not a nation-state. Earliest nation-states are usually linked to the treaty of We...

False dichotomy. It's not either you believe in God or you believe in nothing. But then if you place religious idiocy above common decency you kind of...