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The trolley problem is a classic example in experimental philosophy: a trolley is barreling down the tracks toward three of your biological children. You can pull a lever to divert it toward five random strangers instead. Strict utilitarian logic would say you should sacrifice your three children to save...

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Allow me to address the Israeli people. Your government wants you to believe that the whole world is conspiring against you, that the Palestinian people are terrorists, that the UN is filled with terrorist and terrorist supporters, that your closest allies are your enemies. This most radical Israeli government and its Foreign Minister are calling for “de radicalization” of the Palestinian society as a whole, calling them “human animals” and “children of darkness”. They want you to believe that your survival depends on your ability to continuously wage wars, including against a defenseless civilian population half of whom are children, on their erasure. The Israeli people need to decide if this is what they want their government and military doing. These atrocities that the whole world is watching and that your government is hoping you will filter out, deny or justify. In the midst of this genocide we are telling you: we choose peace and appeal to you to do the same. We do it for our children and our people. You should do it for your children and your loved ones. Enough bloodshed. Enough wars. Enough suffering. If not for the Palestinian people’s sake, for your own, if not in the name of humanity, in the name of self-preservation. The solution is ending this illegal occupation and ending this disastrous conflict; it is the realization of the independence and sovereignty of the Palestinian state, not its destruction; it is the fulfillment of our rights, not their continued denial; it is respect for international law, not its trampling; it is the implementation of the two-State solution, not a one state reality with Palestinians condemned to genocide, ethnic cleansing or apartheid.

State of Palestine

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From THE GOD DEBATE: Me: Why should you care for the needy? Why should you donate blood? Why should you refrain from murder and robbery? You can't possibly say that the only reason to do it is because God will punish you in an afterlife. If God's back was turned, does that mean it would be okay to kill and rob or let people drown or starve? I can think of plenty of secular reasons to do it. Namely, I would not want to be left to starve or drown or die of lack of blood. I would not want to be the victim of murder or robbery. There's nothing special about me, and therefore what I demand of everyone else, I have to accept for myself. It is clear that we would all be better off in a world where everyone helped each other and refrained from hurting each other compared to a society where everyone was a rapacious psychopath. That's why we should be moral. God has nothing to do with it. Ross Douthat (Ross Douthat): What happens in Dr. Pinker's argument is that as an heir of Jewish and Christian civilization, he imports, as this kind of commonsensical position, metaphysical propositions about the existence of these human rights that no one has ever seen of or heard of. He cannot show me a human right under a microscope. He cannot prove to me in a mathematical theorem why segregation was wrong, why it was wrong to murder people in the gulag or the concentration camp for the sake of a better tomorrow. He asserts that it's necessary for, again, sort of decency and order and so on, and often it is, but there has to be a stronger reason when you find yourself in a position where what the society says is out of joint with what you think are the fundamental truths about the universe.

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Melissa Chen

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Can I just put it out there to you all that the Iranian people the majority of them are highly educated smart intellectual people and the ones who are in comments of mine and other people are actually just sick individuals that are working on a plan and their plan is to swear their way and trying to intimidate and abuse social media accounts. All they’re doing is showing themselves to be nothing but uneducated scumbags that work for Israel almost all of them. I’ve got next to nothing followers as in like zero followers or three followers or four followers some of them even have a blue Tech, but they’ve got all the five followers. This is an operation that we put in place to try and take control of the narrative on social media reality on the ground in Iran. There is no willingness whatsoever for what’s happening in social media in the West. There is no one supporting these people in Iran. So whatever they wanna say and do over here means nothing to the people on their own nothing. This young lady in this video is pretty much the same person as me and the sense that she is an Iranian has not lost her sensible sense of National identity and understands what’s right and what’s wrong and if people want to take the side of Israel and fly the flag of the star of David is some kind of symbol of white nationalism Asif that’s gonna save Iran you are at your mind. Don’t worry all of this will go away hopefully the next couple of weeks with these idiots and they’ll find somewhere else to go and annoy and being a nuisance too as these bots normally are. Fuck Israel 🇮🇱

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