So suppose Mary points a gun at Jack and demands he hands over some secret documents and he does. Then we would say that he didn’t do so “of his own free will” and we would not blame him. — tinman917
Members of a society can acquire ownership over the means of production by establishing small collectively owned yet independently operated cooperatives that, when working together as a network, can fulfil the same function of larger, corporate enterprises. — SnowyChainsaw
So what? Palestinians and Jews have claims to this land because they live there and have lived there historically not because of their race and religion. — Baden
Both Palestinians and Jews have reasonable claims to the land in that area. — Baden
while considering the traditional idea of God's judgement — Philip
"The only thing you can be certain of is that you cannot be certain of anything" — Yadoula
Conventionally, objectivity means that the property described is part of the object of thought, independent of the subject of thought. Objective properties may be either necessary or contingent. To say "the Earth is flat" is an objective statement, because the Earth is either flat or not, independent of the subject saying it. It is also a contingent property because it could logically be not flat (like round if you can imagine). Speaking about morality, I use the term "objective" in the conventional sense (notwithstanding the possibility that it can be necessary too, but this is besides the point). — Samuel Lacrampe
Would it be fair to say then that academic philosophy has succumbed, or surrendered itself to the prevailing materialist paradigm/ethos -- using the descriptor 'materialist' in both its ontological and cultural sense -- just like most other academic pursuits, such that, once indoctrinated, there's no longer much leeway to be a so-called 'free thinker' outside that paradigmatic box, so to speak. — snowleopard
And how does measuring a ruler with a ruler assume what is to be proven or demonstrated, which is the definition of circular reasoning? — Arkady
Again, if this process is so viciously circular, how do ruler manufacturers perform quality checks on their products if not by some measuring implement which has been calibrated in accordance with the standard of measurement? — Arkady
Basically, on this forum, as on almost every social media platform, there is an enormous amount of anti-Semitism. It is basic for the left to be anti-Semitic..., — LD Saunders
I haven't seen any stateless ethnic or religious group, with anything similar to the zionist agenda, emigrating to any of these places. — Πετροκότσυφας
Nah, I'm actually poor. Yet, for some reason, I know that the current resurgence of reactionary ideologies will end up in something bad if folk won't stop normilising them. Really, I'm no magician! — Πετροκότσυφας
That's not an answer though. So was the rest of the planet. So is the rest of the planet. I don't see populations emigrating to Mongolia, Australia or Sahara. — Πετροκότσυφας
Nah, that "there" is false. The Ottoman decree allowed Jews from Europe to settle anywhere in the empire, except... Palestine. And later prohibited even Ottoman Jews from buying land in Palestine. — Πετροκότσυφας
Except that these quotes didn't have the benefit of hindsight, they were well known views based on the analysis of the situation. It seems like some people still avert their eyes. — Πετροκότσυφας
Or maybe it is you who expect a clear narrative and just ignore everything else. It seems quite obvious that were you living back then, you wouldn't have paid any attention to those who were actually right in their assessment. — Πετροκότσυφας
So, you'd be able to define what under-developed/underpopulated means, to provide the corresponding sources which show that it was underdeveloped/underpopulated and also give an argument why it matters. Since it was Ottoman land, you couldn't just move there. — Πετροκότσυφας
"Do you imagine that in the past people did what they did because they woke up one morning and thought 'Let's be evil'?". It seems like you imagine this exact thing in the case of Germans; one day they offer Jews a comfortable life, the next they slaughter them without anyone seeing it coming. — Πετροκότσυφας
This is laughable.
It's the same false argument used by white genocidal maniacs all over the world from South Africa to all the Americas. — charleton
Well, it wasn't that romantic. Palestine was not empty and even those who at first managed to miss this fact, soon enough found out: — Πετροκότσυφας
Go ahead and cite to us a single work by a leading university, like Oxford, that supports your Jew-hating claim that Hitler supported Zionism? — LD Saunders
Attempts to morally justify or excuse what was clearly wrong then and now, won’t wash either. — CuddlyHedgehog
So if Somalis landed on English shores, that happen to be unoccupied at the time, they can start working on them to make them more productive for everyone's benefit, right? With such mentality, no wonder the old english imperialists felt entitled to help themselves to anything that crossed their path. — CuddlyHedgehog
Nobody lands on the shore, discovers people already present, and says, "Oh, look, Jack. See, there are people already living here. That means we must leave so as not to disturb them. They were here first, and they deserve to remain the only residents here." — Bitter Crank
. At the moment everyone is corkscrewed around with language. For example, true does not equal fact. — tim wood
Justice is defined as: equality in treatment among all men. — Samuel Lacrampe
As I said before a lot of Religious Organisations are in the process of being replaced by more modern notions of what is an agreeable set of morals. — SnowyChainsaw
n fact it's the other way round from what you say: Marxism is a plain old possible explanation for verifiable, noticeable bad things happening, not an identification of bad things happening that nobody ever noticed before. Very good: but what's the test? In what way could it be a wrong possible explanation? — gurugeorge
They paid warlord/aristocrats for protection. That is not Marxism. Marxism is a passive wait for history to reveal its purpose. — frank
Surely this can't be what people had in mind by "communism". — Purple Pond
Does the moon truly not exist if we do not observe it? What constitutes as evidence of existence and truth? — MTravers