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« Reply #625 on: August 08, 2024, 06:49:51 PM »
My argument is that what you think is determined by nature/ nurture/ circumstances - so information you read on this thread is part of nurture/ circumstances and will be one of the causes / determinants of what you think about the situation in the Middle East.

I could not see how your post declaring you currently don't have an inclination to murder innocents in the Middle East adds anything to the understanding of the situation in the ME - you are not in the situation that would lead you to murder innocents in Palestine or Israel so of course you won't murder them at the moment, but if you were in that situation you likely would murder them.
And your argument seems to agree with that position, without the qualification I covered earlier, so you think Netanyahu does what you would do if you were him.

I can't help (jokey reference) but feel that you are indulging in a tedious argument here ignoring the suffering of those in Gaza.

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« Reply #626 on: August 08, 2024, 07:02:52 PM »
And your argument seems to agree with that position, without the qualification I covered earlier, so you think Netanyahu does what you would do if you were him.
Seems we both agree that if either of us were in the position / circumstances/ nature/ nurture of Netanyahu or Hamas' leadership, we would both do what Netanyahu/ Hamas does - murder innocents and order assassinations. Not sure what qualification you are referring to.

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I can't help (jokey reference) but feel that you are indulging in a tedious argument here ignoring the suffering of those in Gaza.
As you have demonstrated many times on here, you can't help what you think... until additional information on here or elsewhere causes you to think differently.

Doesn't mean what you think is accurate.
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« Reply #627 on: August 08, 2024, 07:04:24 PM »
Seems we both agree that if either of us were in the position / circumstances/ nature/ nurture of Netanyahu or Hamas' leadership, we would both do what Netanyahu/ Hamas does - murder innocents and order assassinations. Not sure what qualification you are referring to.
As you have demonstrated many times on here, you can't help what you think... until additional information on here or elsewhere causes you to think differently.

Doesn't mean what you think is accurate.
No, we haven't agreed that. That is your position which says you agree that you would do everything that Netanyahu has done.

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« Reply #628 on: August 08, 2024, 07:10:01 PM »
No, we haven't agreed that. That is your position which says you agree that you would do everything that Netanyahu has done.
That's your position too based on the arguments you made on the Searching for God thread that our actions are determined.
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« Reply #629 on: August 08, 2024, 07:14:28 PM »
That's your position too based on the arguments you made on the Searching for God thread that our actions are determined.
And again I explained the difference between that as a philosophical idea and a day to day discussion earlier. If you want to take the position you do get, you approve of Netanyahu

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« Reply #630 on: August 09, 2024, 09:53:01 AM »
And again I explained the difference between that as a philosophical idea and a day to day discussion earlier. If you want to take the position you do get, you approve of Netanyahu
How do you reach that conclusion - how are you defining "approve" here? The philosophical idea that our actions are either determined (or random) does not say anything about approval or disapproval in the sense of morality such as thinking an action is "good" or "bad".

People are held accountable for their intentions and actions by our legal system but the legal system acknowledges that these intentions and actions were determined by the person's circumstances/ nature/ nurture. Acknowledging that people's actions are determined by past events does not mean the courts approve those actions or think that those actions are "good".

The act of holding people accountable then becomes part of the nurture/ circumstances that will be a determinant in the future thoughts and conduct of the person being held accountable. Hence, the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Hamas leaders as well as Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant will be a factor or determinant of their future thoughts and actions.

I thought your statement in your post that you thought it was not that "bad" to assassinate extremists (relatively speaking) in comparison to whatever "bad" action the extremist had carried out was an interesting thing to say - as it raised the issue of the problem with vigilante justice that we are seeing in the Israel Palestine issue i.e. each government leader or organisation leader or militant leader deciding for themselves who they consider to be an extremist and deserving of assassination.

Maybe on this forum we all think assassinations are not that bad relatively speaking, but I thought it was interesting - how far is it from one of us living in peaceful Britain thinking/ stating the idea that "it's not that bad (relatively speaking)" to the point where the long-time past or immediate past circumstances/ nature/ nurture of an individual growing up in Palestine or Israel determines their choice to actually order the assassination of leaders and then to the point where bombing innocent people becomes "not that bad (relatively speaking)" in pursuit of political goals.
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Re: Hamas attacks Israel.
« Reply #631 on: August 10, 2024, 10:47:45 AM »
The sad march of death continues


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8erk37yn2no

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« Reply #632 on: August 19, 2024, 06:21:23 PM »
While I have an all too unstrange sense of deja vu, I can only hope that there is a positive outcome.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3xzex72no

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« Reply #633 on: August 25, 2024, 12:56:24 PM »
Oh what a lovely not quite war.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw398njqj4o

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« Reply #634 on: August 29, 2024, 01:14:41 PM »
The ceasefire looks a very distant prospect


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« Reply #635 on: September 02, 2024, 09:43:55 AM »
Now a strike of the labour kind in Israel.


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« Reply #636 on: September 03, 2024, 09:36:47 AM »
Guaranteed to annoy everyone?


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« Reply #637 on: September 17, 2024, 05:17:17 PM »

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« Reply #638 on: September 19, 2024, 03:26:36 PM »
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« Reply #640 on: September 21, 2024, 04:31:08 PM »

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« Reply #641 on: September 22, 2024, 11:07:35 AM »
And getting bleaker. There seems to be a lacuna in the US's attention.


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« Reply #642 on: September 22, 2024, 02:01:30 PM »
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« Reply #643 on: October 01, 2024, 12:56:42 PM »
The drift to wider conflict quickens

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« Reply #645 on: October 02, 2024, 09:29:00 AM »
I suppose there will be those who see this as supporting genocide. The problem with that lune of thinking is that it's impossible then not to end up in a black and white approach to the situation which is only grey.




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« Reply #646 on: October 02, 2024, 12:21:28 PM »
Maybe we should be strictly neutral, and let them fight it out among themselves.
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« Reply #647 on: October 02, 2024, 12:26:03 PM »
Maybe we should be strictly neutral, and let them fight it out among themselves.
Would that apply to Ukraine as well? If not, why not?

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« Reply #648 on: October 02, 2024, 12:33:57 PM »
Would that apply to Ukraine as well? If not, why not?
Different situation. The right and wrong of the Ukraine war is much more clear-cut.
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« Reply #649 on: October 02, 2024, 12:40:03 PM »
Different situation. The right and wrong of the Ukraine war is much more clear-cut.
Surely that's just a matter of opinion? They're much more clear cut to you but there's a lot of people who would argue the other way.