I mean…who cares if Hamas steals some of the food? Are we thinking that the few remaining Hamas members are capable of eating it all, or that the war has been so ineffective that they have a huge military force able to eat enough food to feed hundreds of thousands of people’s worth of aid?

It’s such an obvious excuse to just starve an entire population that it’s a huge shame that every journalist and politician doesn’t call them out on it. Israel has become a nation that exists in a constant state of cognitive disorder.

I mean… If you’re a giant piece of shit there’s been a lot to celebrate this year.

Congress has been dog shit as always, but the courts have significantly expanded the power of the executive and seem as though they are going to continue to do so. Once the justices got away with basically ignoring the concept of precedent with roe vs wade they’ve basically been handing down vibes based rulings since.

It’s going to be interesting to see how the current court stands by their rulings if we ever get anyone slightly left of George Bush back in the White House.

Hmm … maybe you’re right in that it’s a matter of degrees. To me, there’s a minimum amount of empathy that people should have, and below that I think they’re crazy.

Psychology is not really a hard science, there is no real minimum or maximum requirements needed for a diagnosis. It’s all subjective to how a patient interacts and behaves compared to the social normative.

To me, it still takes a crazy mind to look at a breathing mammal and straight up murder it.

Eh, I guess it just depends on your ethical construct. I’m mostly a vegetarian because of environmental reasons, that and I think that industrialized farming is morally abhorrent. I would much rather hunt, kill, and consume a deer than go to a Wendy’s. There’s a lot less suffering involved in virtually all hunting than just about any industrialized farm.

Lol, I’m sure you do… you’re just being purposely obtuse. Hunters do not hunt with intent to cause undue suffering to animals. With the animal harm associated with psychopathy the suffering is the express intent of the harm, not a byproduct of it.

If hunting was actually correlated with psychopathy then we’d be in a bit of a pickle, considering that we evolved from hunting and gathering societies.

You know what? Screw you. I don’t have to dig up my past trauma to justify myself

I didn’t ask you too? It’s just not really something you can use to supplement your argument.

So then what are you arguing against then? You agree with me that lawlessness is not the answer. People in this thread shouldn’t be condoning lawless behavior.

I don’t particularly care about “lawlessness”, as I said the law does not dictate morality. Just because I wouldn’t do something doesn’t mean I have the right to admonish others doing it.

That’s a thread you don’t want to pull buddy.

Lol, sure…

Ahhh - post-modern “there is no truth” BS. No. My opinion here is definitely more moral and justified.

Based on?

It’s not simply my opinion either - it’s the conclusion of many enlightenment philosophers, scholars and legal minds. It’s the basis for the modern liberal democracy legal system that concentrates the power to punish in the government to provide for a stable society.

Ahh, yes… The US legal system, widely known for being non biased and clearly has never been used to systemically repress entire segments of underprivileged society. The perfect system that has executed hundreds of innocent men…

Many people are saying it… Must be true, no reason to actually argue your point on how this specific case is immoral. Why offer an actual argument when you can just appeal to authority and virtue signal instead?

“I’m not saying people “should feel bad” about it I’m saying they shouldn’t be advocating”

Interesting rephrasing considering I already said “In my personal opinion it’s not something I would condone”…

And as it happens - I have a very good idea of what it would feel like. You don’t know me.

I’m sure you know exactly how it feels to have your friends/family deliberately attacked in a mass casualty event by a drunk driver at a festival…

Again, your feelings and opinions are just that… opinions. Your opinions are not more morally or ethically superior to anyone’s else’s just because you believe in them. Laws do not dictate morality or reality and are just as flawed as any other social construct.

If the necklace impeded blood flow or even put a lot of strain on his circulatory system then it could have caused his heart attacks.

Sounds like it wasn’t him being pulled towards the machine that killed him, it was being pinned against the machine for a prolonged period of time.

Or just principles that are different from your own ethical construct. I’m no more defending the gunman than you are defending the driver, I’m just correcting your critique.

In my personal opinion it’s not something I would condone, I’m also not going to lose any sleep over it. Tbh I don’t know how violent I would feel if some drunk loser ran over any of my loved ones, and I don’t think you really know either despite all your moral grandstanding.

There is a correlative link between the willingness to hurt animals and psychopathy.

I think you’re conflating hunting with torturing animals for entertainment…

Right…but what does that have to do with abandoning principles?

My point is that there is no uniform set of principles, and that crude forms of justice might not inherently conflict with their principles.

Go to Wendy’s

Don’t really see the difference between going to Wendy’s to eat meat and hunting for meat. Well besides the fact that industrialized farming practices are less ethical.

Bring back the native big cats

We no longer have the same ecology that used to be able to support big cats and wolves, at least in North America. Native Americans spent generations changing the environment to make deer over plentiful. Add that to the destruction of nearly all old forest as European settlers moved west, and it makes it infeasible to utilize apex predators to control the population of deer in the vast majority of north America.

abandon all their principles

Strict gun control is more of a liberal ideology and Lemmy leans pretty far left.

It’s no different than shooting animals with a gun (proper or airsoft or whatever), which i think any sensible person would agree should bar you from owning guns.

I think there’s quite a big difference between senselessly running over an animal and shooting one with a gun. I mean hunting for food and animal population control are kinda necessary in a lot of situations, while running over an animal isn’t.

Nah, you still end up paying state and local taxes. Income/revenue is different than profit.

Plus, being a non profit allows for people like Jack to utilize donations as tax deductions.

I feel like nonprofit should come with default quotations nowadays. At this point it’s just a way to avoid taxation during development until you have a feasible route to profitability.

Innocent until proven guilty is not a moral code, it’s a legal one. Courts do not dictate reality or morality, they are obviously imperfect social constructs and to pretend otherwise is foolish.

1. The Epstein files are full of Magastanis.

I mean, if there is some list of extremely wealthy clients… It would probably just resemble a copy of the Republican mega donors list.

Most people wealthy enough to vacation on a private island also really don’t like paying taxes.

And yet the people in charge of the judiciary are more religiously motivated than they’ve been in nearly a century.

It doesn’t really matter if we as a society are less religious than ever if the people with their hands on the tiller are not. There’s a reason they are called reactionaries…

Idk, if it wasn’t religion it’d be something else. Religion is a great tool to control populations, but it’s just one of many. Most human conflicts have a materialistic basis to them and things like religion or nationality are just used as window dressing.

I’d say the most destructive force on the planet is usually just rich/powerful dudes beefing over turf.