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  1. amorphous_constellation

    Hamas must be eradicated

    I don't know that I've ever heard the phrase 'material moral failing.' Is there a political theory where that is mentioned specifically? Does it mean something like a failure to use material conditions that are otherwise sufficient? And in your statement that you contrast against this, I assume...
  2. amorphous_constellation

    Hamas must be eradicated

    I suppose I was optimistic that such people are rare in modern thinkers, who form the foundation of general society
  3. amorphous_constellation

    Hamas must be eradicated

    You could still do it, you'd just word it slightly differently, because the ontology would be different. There would be more of a stress on the 'impersonal' material forces, of a sort, that took the form of present forms. Alternatively, you would have to be prepared to argue that there is...
  4. amorphous_constellation

    Suppose Israel Destroys Hamas In Gaza.....

    You don't think that some of that would work in this case?
  5. amorphous_constellation

    Suppose Israel Destroys Hamas In Gaza.....

    I may go back and forth with political stances on economics, but in the end, I do have some sympathies with capitalism and libertarian thinking. Sure, social conditioning does likely play a great role in human life. But if tomorrow, everyone in that region started thinking like a libertarian for...
  6. amorphous_constellation

    Hamas must be eradicated

    Well the nazi's came into existence, and probably had those same kinds of feelings, but no one today would say they were justified in having them. But if your economy stinks because of lost wars and inflation, then that is where a population is probably is at risk for contracting general...
  7. amorphous_constellation

    Hamas must be eradicated

    They didn't have the power to. But if you gave any of those guys who paraglided in a nuclear trigger, my guess is that they'd all use it without compunction. Israel on the hand, probably has nukes but doesn't use them. There's an abstract leap you have to make with this.
  8. amorphous_constellation

    Say Something Good

    The Tarot is good, because I think it reflects the fact that no energy is wasted in a sense, because from the Fool to the World, the journeyer has nothing to do but learn. This contains the exploration of different religions and philosophies, they all nourish the soul
  9. amorphous_constellation

    What are National Interests?

    Probably I guess. I mean, it's kind of looking like I will retire onto the street, and never own anything. Meanwhile there are billions that go to foreign intervention, and I think I saw a headline that the u.s. just made a nuke that was 24 times more powerful than one of the ones from world war...
  10. amorphous_constellation

    What are National Interests?

    But then, what exactly do the nuclear arms represent. I think I saw a headline that u.s. just came out with, or was making a nuke 24 times more powerful that one of those that was dropped on Japan. I think maybe nukes represent a corrupted form of piece. Because what it's really saying, is that...
  11. amorphous_constellation

    What are National Interests?

    So in this equation, we have a power, an outside power, and an internal people within a nation. I think maybe in all cases, the power of an internal people in a nation is offset / consolidated to some degree. No body of people seems like it can ever be fully satisfied with what the power leading...
  12. amorphous_constellation

    What are National Interests?

    I think it's probably true for what the governments of other countries tell their people about us as well. I would posit that a more authoritarian position would like to point out to its people, that there is something about american freedoms that makes us erratic, and that this is undesirable...
  13. amorphous_constellation

    What would you have done?

    I think problem is that by attacking as they are, they are probably doing what hamas wants. They want to viciously use their population as a shield, so that your opinion changes. The route Israel has taken, is probably the one that hamas wanted them to take
  14. amorphous_constellation

    What would you have done?

    Wait, strengthen defenses, let the hamas attack stay in the news cycle. Let opinion deepen against them. Wait to see what other countries in the region start to express sympathy, and which don't. Then you have a better idea of who your allies are
  15. amorphous_constellation

    Whatever else might be argued, this much is true: ...

    Well my opinion, useless as it is in coming from mere intuition, is that the whole area there seems like it must have rigid resource & space limits that affect all parties. Maybe things aren't optimized as well as they could be? How much of the land is arable, how much of it can sustain good...
  16. amorphous_constellation

    What are National Interests?

    I would posit that it's likely pretty much the same for any powerful nation, with the exception that in some places, slightly less of a pitch has to be made to any random person in the nation. Though one may emphasize the point that in america, they seem to go ahead and do stuff anyway, with the...
  17. amorphous_constellation

    Rural vs Urban Divide

    Well, I've lived back and forth in both kinds of places, which I think gave me a sense of the difference early in life. The city dwellers, to me, seemed hip, cold, and occupied, and in country, it seemed like everyone wanted to talk. It was no one knows no one vs. everyone knows everyone. At...
  18. amorphous_constellation

    Hamas vs. Israel, a thought experiment

    One wonders about what exactly their attitude to all of this is, to refer to the civilian population. Is there a general attitude, or a diverse one? How are they educated (via what they are told, and what they experience) to perceive what is happening around them, and to what degree does it...
  19. amorphous_constellation

    Venturing A Prediction

    Yes, agreed. But it's looking like they are going to go and head in. Into an area, that might not even have that many adults in it. Which might make for an especially tragic situation, unfortunately. So it's apparently a bad situation all around. We are about to see what happens, I don't know...
  20. amorphous_constellation

    Venturing A Prediction

    But do you have any comment about what it is they would actually have to do, to get the bad guys, who obviously hide in dense infrastructure? I never said that I thought it was very feasible, based on that. I mean what is all this about tunnels? Do they have a base below a hospital? Do they use...
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