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by henry quirk
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:22 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Atheism
Replies: 1058
Views: 27134

Re: Atheism

God and religion are my measure. If that's true then why fixate on Christianity? Judaism and Islam, the other two Abrahamic religions, never come up with you. Any God or any religion that allows mere mortals to connect the dots between moral commandments on this side of the grave and immortality an...
by henry quirk
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:08 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

you can't do somebody dirt by camping on a piece of ground they didn't even claim to own, so it's hard to see what the moral issue can even be. Trappers and such often trekked out into the territories and wintered in unclaimed (as far as they knew) areas. They'd build rough shelters -- far more sub...
by henry quirk
Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:23 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Atheism
Replies: 1058
Views: 27134

Re: Atheism

Again, all of this "serious philosophy" being exchanged when the bottom line for Christians is and always will be that unless AJ and henry and all the Atheists here accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior, they can kiss being saved goodbye. Why is Christianity your measure? Why not J...
by henry quirk
Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:17 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

Aboriginal North Americans HAD no conception of land ownership. In the legal sense, you're right. But me & age (and phyllo, I guess) are debating the moral claim. I'm told, age, I'm a thief becuz my plot was, at some point, stolen (no doubt multiple times) from others. I contend I am not a thie...
by henry quirk
Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:16 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

You don't remember that it was stolen from the Indians? Who'd they swipe it from? Does that make a difference? Are you saying that if the Indians stole it from someone then it was okay to steal it from them? Oh, you were makin' a serious point. Okay... I didn't steal any land. As I told skepdick, m...
by henry quirk
Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:02 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

Can you "henry quirk" really still not yet see that when you decide to 'take' another's life, liberty, and/or so-called property for whatever reason you have decided to, even under some sort of claimed 'defense', then this makes all of 'this' relative? Can you, age, really not see that yo...
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:30 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

phyllo wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:26 pm
The very 'land', which you claim is 'your property', is 'stolen land'.
What. Is. Your. Evidence.

You assert but offer no evidence.
You don't remember that it was stolen from the Indians?
Who'd they swipe it from?
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

When a parent states and/or claims, 'This is my child I can do what I want to them'. This is an example of someone prepping to violate his child's natural rights. Parents parent , not own children. Or, when you vote for another, who can then so-called and so claimed 'rightfully' treat you as they c...
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

Now, as for how to get the eight or so billion individual human beings, which you speak of here, to share, then this is extremely simple and easy. Then it should be extremely simple and easy to explain, yes? Please do. For example, what is to be done to a man who does 'touch' or 'takes' another one...
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: One nation is a solution for war
Replies: 198
Views: 7735

Re: One nation is a solution for war

nemos wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:53 pmI wonder if you would agree with the idea of one nation if it was your nation that would remain the only one?
A constitutional republic is, by far, not the worst system a population can be saddled with but it's certainly not the best, so I say no.
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:29 pm
henry quirk wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:28 pm
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:21 pmDo you have an Ayn Rand poster in your bedroom? You do realise that she was a massive hypocrite don't you?
I'm not an Objectivist. I din't give a rat's ass about Rand.
Oh. I thought you were quoting her. Must be just a coincidence.
I was quoting me.
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:28 pm Extremists are always hypocrites.
Mebbe so.

What's my hypocrisy?
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:21 pmDo you have an Ayn Rand poster in your bedroom? You do realise that she was a massive hypocrite don't you?
I'm not an Objectivist. I don't give a rat's ass about Rand.
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

I have yet to understand what the fucked up parasites in office (there are plenty of those for sure) would have had to gain by forcing a pandemic on the world. Ask yourself who did well during and after. do try to be a little bit more little Er, you misread. Here it is again (with a lil edit)... Yo...
by henry quirk
Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The USA and Israel
Replies: 1398
Views: 108174

Re: The USA and Israel

'share' 'the world' with every one else. How do you propose to teach or convince 8 billion or so individuals to share ? Do you still want to insist that taking the life of another, by blowing the head off of 'a body', is acceptable and justifiable if 'that one' just, for example, touched the believ...