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But it's also reason for hope because systems can be changed.

What if Joe is basically a decent human being and the influence of how a system works (or actually doesn't) is even bigger than we think?

How are you going to do that without it causing massive harm to the population?

It might be more obvious in the US but it's even happening in the Netherlands, which has a pluralistic political system. So it's not just the two part...

I don't have such data because I don't agree with that conclusion. It surely highlights what's going wrong. You assume the Iraq war was a good thing b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxBca4eGmcM&ab_channel=TheLincolnProject I didn't know this about Joe and I think it's pretty funny some of the best a...

See, this is why you shouldn't be talking about these things. We're not talking about the authority of Saddam but the country that wants to go to war....

Let's hope 50 years from now a lot of people still care so they avoid the shitty mess the US is in now. That said, I think the only solution for this ...

Again a total misrepresentation. I asked if you knew the Just War Theory. You said you read a Wiki. I shared a summary of its history and advised a bo...

Again, this didn't answer my question. I'm done Paul. You don't listen to what I say and don't answer the questions I ask. Don't bother replying.

So much effort you don't understand just war theory. Whatever. I graduated in the subject and apparently my 6 months studying it in depth with decades...

So what this answer once again demonstrates is an unwillingness to try to understand someone else's position. You're not qualified to debate this subj...

I asked you to reflect on why a thing is a certain way not what you think it should be. Why does Australian law or Dutch law or UK law prohibit you fr...

Yeah, it must be mental blocks causing people to disagree. :brow:

Your reply has exactly zero bearing on my previous post. Your rule doesn't apply because I'm not saying there's a rule protecting Saddam, I'm saying t...

That is a straw man and not the first. Just stop it. You're not going to shame me into a different position by pretending I'm all for Saddam killing p...

This is the third straw man you've raised and the first one I'm reacting to. You should respond to what I say not to things you make up.

I suppose it's good to know you think murderers should be excused as long as you don't like the victims. An ethically repugnant position. It's even wo...

That's the consequence of ignoring intent.

There's a reason why intent is important, which you happily ignore because you want to reach a certain conclusion. By analogy, you're now proposing th...

You'd wish he was a dildo as that would at least make him useful and give you good feelings.

wait, what, you're a progressive? :rofl:

Love the holier than thou and no true Scotsman thinking gripping this thread now. Bullshit all around as usual.

The grand jury has only testified that no evidence for homicides was submitted and when they asked about it the prosecuter said because he didn't thin...

All capitals really gets the point across doesn't it. Just the first paragraph alone shows how you don't understand sovereignty. Read up. I'll talk to...

I'm not denying there's systemic racism in the US. I'm saying that while the Breonna case has been poorly handled I so far have not seen evidence that...

I already pointed out an issue with it. The history I set out is peppered with remarks as well. And your take away is I'm dogmatic because you're not ...

Ah, that's how it works in the Netherlands as well. You can only ask the court to order the prosecutor to prosecute.

Capital flows far outstrip the money involved in goods and services. So yes, the economy is largely financial bullshit. Let me try to illustrate (not ...

As I said, you're not here for debate but for confirmation of your own believes. Boring.

A Brief History of the Just War Tradition (3 of 3) 5. Contemporary Theory In general there existed a positivist denial of the doctrine of war on the b...

A Brief History of The Just War Tradition (2 of 3) 3. Aquinas In the second division of the second part of the Summa Theologica (hereafter: “war artic...

A Brief History of The Just War Tradition (1 of 3) Since Antiquity, the manifest and physical conflict between groups organised towards that end we ca...

Well, the 2003 Iraq war fails on a few levels to be considered a just war based on what has been written on the subject. Quite obviously so to be hone...

Are you familiar with the Just War Theory? The UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions also deal with this subject. Did you read them?

Thanks. I get this part. Cameron's statement about the murder charges and the grand jury agreeing that they were justified in their return of fire is ...

Oh, you're Dutch? Cool.

when did you move to Israel?

Something is resonating with about 40 to 50% of voters.

I distinctly recall houseprices losing value significantly. Of course, they've rebounded since on the "solution" offered by central banks to bail-out ...

You misspelled ChyNa.

Now we have them pretend a 3.5% contraction in GDP is a good thing because it isn't 10%. :rofl:

Hunter isn't running for president. Nobody cares.

You can be agnostic about opinions as well. So I don't commit to saying God exists or not but I can also be agnostic about markets going up or down. M...

That's simply not true. There's a distinction between speculation and investment in economic theory as well. Depends on what you read, really. But it'...

I never said it should be unregulated. I take issue with pretending stock markets are inherently insane. They're very useful.

Stock markets are excellent systems to bring lenders and borrowers together. Its insanity is caused by other things.

What I'm trying to get at, is that this isn't a form of speculation. Maybe you just think that's a semantic discussion but there's a reason supervisor...

Because I think we need to distinguish between speculation and investing. If investors en masse invest because of cheap credit, this has nothing to do...

This is fundamentally flawed because speculation goes both ways. Speculation doesn't cause bubbles across all financial instruments. Asset inflation i...