Even though the Allies committed war crimes, they were morally superior to the Axis. Is that correct? — RogueAI

Isn’t it true you can’t have it both ways, you either have universal rights and liberal principles are a thing or they are not. — schopenhauer1

The very idea of being self-critical of one’s OWN ideals seems a Western thing.

Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?

Mahatma Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

Does the committing of Allied war crimes entail a moral equivalence between the Allies and Axis? — RogueAI

Israel has a history of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and other human rights violations that skirt the lines of genocide. We see the intent put into practice on a large scale. — Tzeentch

Did the Allies commit genocide [war crimes] against populations of Axis powers? — RogueAI

What Coates tells us on the other hand is his personal experience, how he did feel when being in the occupied territories etc. — ssu

If I were to die, I'd rather people find a good finished master of my songs than a crummy old demo on a cassette. — George Harrison, 1979

Fucking rubbish. — George Harrison, 1995

Let's suppose for a moment that God exists and is the fundamental truth of nature. — Benj96

If I were to die, I'd rather people find a good finished master of my songs than a crummy old demo on a cassette. — George Harrison, 1979 Rolling Stone Interview

What's the common denominator of all struggling democracies? — Vera Mont

Yes... but I guess it still leaves us with open questions about which metaphysical models we may be willing to engage with, or accept as worth our time. — Tom Storm

So if poor old @Bob Ross had answered that there were only one cup, I'd have skewer'd him on the other horn of the dilemma, that since there was only one cup there is no difference between observed cups and cups-in-themselves. — Banno

What I meant was whether the financial elites would allow control to be handed over to benign "strong AGI". — Janus

Any more positive views of the world's future? — Tim3003

I take your questions seriously, and provide long detailed answers. — Gnomon

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/709894

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/718369

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/742056 — 180 Proof

... they also hate white Europeans for wanting a more balanced approach to immigration ... — flannel jesus

I won't ask a Kantian to get a cup out for tea. Heaven knows what might happen. — Banno

I would have thought that, where a metaphysics leads you to count two cups where there is otherwise but one, that alone would be grounds for doubt. — Banno

See how metaphysics leads one astray? — Banno

I think it clear we do not know what happens when we die. All the rest is story telling. — Fooloso4

A congenital problem with idealism is that, in denying that things exits outside the mind, it throws out the existence of other minds. Of course over the last few hundred years various arguments and excuses have accreted around Kant's thinking, but it seems difficult to see how we cannot be sure of the chair on which we sit, and yet we can be sure of the folk to whom we talk. — Banno

... solipsism. Perhaps epistemic ...

I'm a Substance Monist. — Gnomon

... what non-trivially distinguishes "physical events" from "metaphysical interactions"? — 180 Proof

Meta-physics is the design (form, purpose); physics is the product (shape, action). The act of creation brings an ideal design into actual existence. The design concept is the “formal” cause of the thing designed. — Gnomon

Does Immanentism allow for an eternal "Multiverse", or "Big Bounce" scenarios, [ ... ]?

Solipsism.
— 180 Proof

Why? — Bob Ross