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It's my name combined with my impeccable rationality.

I love how my name triggers people so much. None of this is ironic. And no, I meant precisely what I said.

The person with a brain is to say.

You can tell the lack of consciousness on this forum considering that much of the energy is spent on helping people get to the status quo of moral progression rather than being the ones who challenge and question the current moral paradigm.

You guys are getting baited hard. What is this quality of conversation, lol. Would have been more interesting if he said incest was wrong, then we could have at least had an interesting moral discussion about moral intuitionism that applies to most people.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/07/opinions/israel-hamas-gaza-not-war-crimes-spencer/index.html On whether or not Israel is committing warcrimes.

You are moralizing. Your moral outrage closes your mind. Your own fear prevents you from seeing the obvious, because you have closed your heart to the suffering of one side on the basis of abstract moral evaluation. This blindness is the root cause of the conflict. You are the Israelis, you are Hamas. Your mission is to realize this, so that you can approach this topic from a position of truth. If the western countries had not ignored the germans suffering after World War 1, it might have never come to World War 2. Never again, they say, yet they never seem to learn. Your mistake is that you allow your moral righteousness and outrage to cloud your vision. He did not condemn anyone, because he seems wise enough to realize that condemnation will not help. He is one step ahead of you, my friend.

How racist a country will be depends on it's development and other factors, like collective fear and so forth. Israel as well as Palestine are both in fear, and so they will both be susceptible to hate. One of the major flaws of western society today is that it does not seek to understand racism, it simply uses it as a term of judgement and moral condemnation. It uses it so that it can blame someone, not realizing that it is afflicted by the same blindness that the people they point fingers at are as well. Remember, the greater your judgement of others is, the more blind you become to your own selfishness, because you will have to face your own judgement if you were to recognize your own evil.

@Karmadhi Funny, the video I linked with Arnold basically addressed this very issue.

You have to be careful with such conclusions, these types of videos exists in palestine too. And they also exist here in the west, against jewish people. You are just not presented this information because depending on your bias you will only be fed things to confirm your own bubble.

Tiktok is what happened to them, this is what it was designed to do. Create division and idiocrify society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsETTn7DehI Message from Arnold Schwarzenegger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8YYmrgAeqw This is basically what Palestinian activism should look like. On the other hand, Israeli activism should be focusing solely on criticizing the Israeli far right regime and their transgressions. But it is easier to wallow in victimhood and avoid taking any responsibility, so of course both sides will just add fuel to the fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keqZb6YrVO4

Most of the people who were slaughtered by Hamas probably had a similar attitudes. People living in these Kibbutzes are stage green hippie types, same goes for the people at the music festival. There were in fact some peace and human rights activists who were executed by Hamas.

To be clear, she is referring to the people who held her captive, not the people who kidnapped her. She reported she was beaten and experienced hell by the actual terrorists who slaughtered civilians and brought her back as a hostage. Hamas has every reason not to mistreat the hostages that are designated for exchange, so this is not very surprising.

US voters.

This is a little worrisome: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HHP_Oct23_KeyResults.pdf Over 50% of 18-24 aged participants answer Hamas mass murder of over 1,200 Israeli civilians can be justified. This is US registered voters by the way. @Leo Gura Is it just me or does image embedding not work anymore?

Look, a mature person's take on the issue: https://barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-on-israel-and-gaza-a6c397f09a30 Barack Obama

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1716133054865867040 Sad that it has come to this.

Most people in this thread are uneducatable, so you are wasting your time.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/oct/20/antisemitic-hate-crimes-in-london-rise-1350-since-israel-hamas-war-met-says https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715785173957067117

@Leo Gura And to be clear, my layman opinion is also that a ground invasion probably will not lead to anything. I think a lot of people will die and it has a high chance to end in disaster for Israel and achieve basically nothing. I mean it will be akin to fighting the Hitler youth in Berlin's last stand, just terrible. But I do see this as inevitable, and I am not sure what the proper action to take here would be.

It accomplished the destruction of the current regime, which is the goal. After that you can try to establish an environment in which future wars are less likely. This has happened numerous times in history, just look at nazi germany and post-war germany. Now, is this likely to occur? Probably not, but this will be the attempt, and like I said, we have to be realistic to some degree. No nation state will allow what happened and then not seek to destroy the entity which committed the act. You can fantasize about what an enlightened, perfectly rational being with an enlightened, perfectly rational population might do to lead to the best outcome, but at least clarify you are engaging in science fiction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2ndYomKippurWar/comments/17cyhp0/these_people_are_tapped_in_the_head/ This is a good representation of a significant number, if not majority, of palestinian attutide. It's so easy to just deny anything that does not fit your narrative, especially if an entire portion of the political spectrum basically enables you in your hatred and bias. Now, this will be true on both sides, but don't forget that you guys are enabling this. You are making the bias and hatred worse by enablings this type of mentality, and it will lead to more death and destruction, especially for palestinians. I don't know how realistic that is, and we both know no nationstate would just do some assassination after what happened. This isn't just a terrorist organization, it would be more like the Cartel became the elected government of Mexico, and then they did what I described. This is war, and it will not stop until the other party has been destroyed.