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I've always understood it as reciprocity. If you believe you have a right and wish to have that respected, you have a dirty to respect another's same ...

How do you know this? Why not percussion first? Could we have sung before we gave meaning? If not, why not?

It's a story so you can go either way.

God forbid that normal rules apply to billionaires. The ease with which you assume all this is unfortunately true for too many people.

Looks like a fly with diarrhoe took a shit.

Black Lives Matter evokes emotional resistance in those who don't really think everybody is equal. I don't think those people are going to be swayed b...

The Greeks cooked the books, which was partly caused by bad accounting rules applying to off-market swaps but it was the Greek government (advised by ...

I know everything about sovereign bonds. I issued them for 5 years at the Dutch State Treasury Agency. So fire away. There are still bonds out there t...

This might be interesting : http://the-eye.eu/public/WorldTracker.org/World%20History/Roman%20Empire/Human%20Rights%20in%20Ancient%20Rome.pdf

Define imperialism. Some political science theories look at the ability to project power over territory which doesn't necessarily mean it has to be pa...

I've read everything you wrote Paul. It's crap. Liberal democracies are sliding into plutocracies and autocracies as we speak. Your view of the US rol...

OK. Hubris. Nice.

Right. So you refuse to read research handed to you on a plate because...?

:rofl: Read the Princeton study.

This will be my last reply to you because I don't think you are actually here for debate. Whenever you're confronted with counter arguments to your in...

I'm not sure. I suspect Putin is personally the most powerful man in the world even if Russia isn't the world power it used to be. Will he be that pat...

BLM was doing fine until "defund the police", I think, which as a slogan is terrible.

thanks. I didn't know that.

Well, I'd still diversify.

Yeah, until it doesn't. Problem that ssu is pointing at is you can't time the market or know who the winners are going to be.

My take away from that was that my arguments apparently confuse you, which is probably why you never actually engage them. How is a treaty with a Chap...

Seeing the world in good and bad is the actual philosophical failure here, allowing for no nuance or reflection.

Yeah, the wonders of supply-side economics. "...water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But ... mon...

All guilty but that doesn't make them equally bad. I'm not sure Hitler was categorically worse than Stalin. But that has more to do with the sheer num...

we've seen with Trump it's not just a money game. That's a hopeful fact actually.

This is a misrepresentation obviously but requires you to read carefully. I'm not going through the motions again, it's all in my previous posts.

Exactly. I made my case and you continue to hero worship a war criminal. Just like neo-nazis do with Hitler.

But the "modern" standards of treating POWs existed already in treaties from 1907 and 1929. I'm judging it by the standards of that time. Japan never ...

This I totally agree with. If after 4 years of Trump and a centre candidate being forwarded and almost nobody switched camps then moving further right...

Also, lest I forget, a war of aggression is also a war crime. So in fact they were prosecuted for war. I don't know enough about that part of the war ...

My motive is that nobody is above the law and that includes Churchill, therefore he's a war criminal. The UK freely submitted itself to the Hague and ...

A different interpretation: their voluntary lock down did quite well up to a point only now requiring mandatory lockdowns. Which is much later than ot...

Retribution on civilian populations, or to make it morally clear - innocent people - is never a valid response. So no. I don't think the bombing of Dr...

Specifically with respect to the Battle of Britain this was true. And this only concerns the way war was waged, Hitler was still the aggressor which m...

This is confused on various levels. If war is amoral, what were the Nazis guilty of? An argument for convenience. The 1907 The Hague Convention stipul...

based on your taste in whiskey you might as well. :razz:

Yup. Which every country did of course.

Nope, these rules have been established for quite some time and laid down specifically for situations of war. In civil "settings" human rights treatie...

and while you're at it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907

The end doesn't justify the means. The criminal intent was to target civilians instead of military targets.

which updated the terms of the two 1929 treaties, and added two new conventions.

Why don't you look up the date of the Geneva Conventions, read them, and come back to me?

Not to me it is. You must be either English or American to have confusing morals about purposefully targeting civilians. As I said, we fought for the ...

Well, hopefully that just signals they take these threats seriously and will surgically strike wherever terrorists are working on WMDs without any int...

The Americans committed war crimes too, that's true. But that doesn't alleviate British guilt.

So the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg are funny to you? Good to know where you stand I suppose.

That's why bombers flew relatively low and were dependent on intelligence as well. They did better than many "modern" air forces considering the means...

Where's the contradiction? There's a difference between targeting a legitimate target and accepting collateral damage and purposefully targeting civil...

As did and does every country. Which is why precision bombing is a thing instead of carpet bombing.

It's well documented why Bomber Command did what they did and what they expected it to be the consequences. No need to read minds.