Reg,

Are you sure Walter isn’t dipping into his own prescription there? The less strung-out would just use fly paper or trap them in jugs of sugar water.

Strega,

I meant to add as punctuation: All this fine mess is ultimately what Hamas hath wraught. Lots of IDF members would much rather be planting a tree or building a gazebo addition.

@jakelafort – it doesn’t take a lot to destroy the feeling of “I feel your pain”.  All it takes is if we don’t approve of someone, so for some reason, they are not “deserving” of our empathic concern.  A set of people we don’t approve of is hated out-group members.

Strega wrote:
But that’s not what stops us from randomly killing annoying people. We don’t think “I want to throttle you but I’d better not because it’s wrong”.

Well, this is true I agree.  There’s no such thing as moral obligation, having to do things because it’s the morally right thing to do.  We follow moral principles because we don’t like…[Read more]

Strega,

Whoever would want Gaza would have their work cut out for them. It wouldn’t be like The Donald’s glitzy, shiny AI prospectus.

First, they would have to clear out all the unexploded ordinance. That would include both all the ordinance in the tunnels and all the ordinance on the surface, conventional, plus Chemical, Biological, and maybe…[Read more]

I wonder if the Saudi’s in partnership with Jared would be interested in this ‘piece of prime real estate’.

Reg,

7 good reasons why we shouldn’t free Palestine.

I agree that a Gaza or West Bank ran by Islamists like Hamas is unacceptable. But I am equally not sure if anything beyond destroying Hamas is a good idea, such as Netanyahu’s proposal to take-over and hand it over to another Arab regime.

Doesn’t this assume there is an Arab regime t…[Read more]

Strega,

When i read your reply to Simon my kneejerk was you’re right.

Now i am not sure. In general there is something to it. Evolution would bake in to homos that only the atypical psycopath or deviant just goes around murdering. What evolution also bakes in is neuroflexibility or neuroplasticity. In fact it is if not opposite of instinct…[Read more]