Are you sure? It seems to me you're driving toward a particular point. The original question was 'Who owns the land?' - and it's an interesting, and d...
"By contrast, according to Popper, the intellectual enemies of the open society are those who claim to possess knowledge of a common good. This knowle...
The problem of suffering is subjective. You think it important. I don't care about it. — counterpunch Admittedly, it doesn't look good when taken out ...
Was the hypothetical previous owner a citizen of a terrorist state, intent on genocide, that refused any and all compromises offered, decade after dec...
By that logic "build that wall!" Is that your logic? I'm guessing it's not - Manuel! Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I...
See my comments above for why it's not "that simple." It's a hugely complex issue, with wrongs and rights on both sides. That what makes it the most i...
Exactly what the Jews said in 1947. No, the territory was 100% ruled by the British - after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. See the Treaty of Sèvres h...
Is your post in response to my comment, because if so, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine followed b...
I agree it's horrendous, but that's just the surface of things. There are deeper causes to all this that don't allow for an emotive conclusion. It's v...
I said, knee jerk left wing dogma. It's easy to look at this, and see nothing but the suffering, and immediately form an opinion; getting so emotional...
I don't have a narrative per se. What I have, as you seem to already know, is some first thoughts - on what I agreed with the OP is a very difficult q...
If you've got to the point where you have land and capital - to say nothing of the ideas, and the will, and someone else has nothing but their labour,...
In Marxism there are three elements to capitalist production: land, labour and capital. A labour theory of value conveniently forgets the other two, a...
Right to Repair? Wrong. Duty to recycle! If it breaks buy a new one, and keep people in jobs. The old one can be thrown into an industrial mincing mac...
Is it really? I dated an Estonian girl who lived under communism, and she told me that because nothing is owned, everyone steals. That's not a theory....
It is a difficult question. I'm not sure it has an answer, but here's my first thought: Morally, it's like Rousseau said: “The man who first fenced in...
All homo sapiens emerged from Africa about 70,000 years ago, and they're still moving around. "Colonialism" has not ended. People are still on the mov...
Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(636%E2%80%93637) The siege of Jerusalem was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and th...
Above I argued: Your answer was an appeal to religious authority. Your belief that the problem of suffering is morally urgent, is your opinion - and t...
If you were talking about sustainability, I'd agree - it's urgent, and calls for radical solutions, I've sought to explain to you, but you won't ackno...
So you "modestly assume" you have the wisdom and technological ability to genetically alter all life on earth that doesn't meet your ethical standards...
Funny because, I assume the same of vegans - that they troll normal people with their presumed moral superiority. It's you broadcasting moral claims b...
And if you'd like to see successful trial of Savory's methods, see here: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment Grazing management impacts on vegetatio...
Either I have no choice but to believe I have free will. Or I have free will. In either case, I believe I have free will. I'm guessing Schopenhauer di...
Why? Do you suppose I advocate factory farming? I said specifically that we need to do agriculture better, and that I don't condone unnecessary cruelt...
No. I'm saying that evolution imbued human beings with a moral sense - like a sense of humour, or the aesthetic sense. It's not an explicit set of rul...
Thespace baron mykeyboard is sticking and it'sdriving menuts. Superficially, yeah, but it's like Dawkins. I don't conflate the existence of God with r...
Is it? So if you see a big bloke punching a small woman - do you make a reasoned judgment that it's wrong, or do you feel it? If you hear a joke - is ...
I don't take umbrage at people disagreeing with me, but I do if they are unclear - and refuse to clarify what it is they are saying I'm wrong about. H...
Most species that have ever lived; in fact, something like 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. What survives is a marble cut from...
I cannot forbear adding to these reasonings an observation, which may, perhaps, be found of some importance. In every system of morality, which I have...
The passage quoted implies Hume assumes morality is God given. With regard to his personal beliefs, he was agnostic or sceptical, (not publicly, of co...
I don't know if God exists, or does not. I'm agnostic. But God exists as a concept in human understanding, and - I believe, that concept enabled hunte...
No, and yes. Most fundamentally, morality is a sense - in terms of which, rightfully, we understand facts about an objective reality. Famously, Hume o...
Yeah, sorry man, I just blanked last night. I went to bed shortly after, and was out like a light. But in the cool light of morning, thanks for pointi...
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