If I had come about through the unwilling merger of two people, and my death could restore those people, it’s probably ethical to kill me to make it happen.
I don’t think it’s necessarily reasonable to call the two component people dead either. Death is a not a particularly well defined term, but we don’t tend to apply it to people who might get better.
Why don’t we just harvest your organs and give them to people we deem more useful, ya know?
The knowledge that you live in a society where you could be legally killed at any point for the greater good, and the resultant fear and uncertainty probably would cause more harm overall than doing so could actually alleviate.
One Palestine is not a recipe for a stable state imo. You can deport the settlers back to their countries of origin, at least the European ones, but that still leaves a sizable contingent, something like two million IIRC people/descendents of people who migrated/were forced out of the neighbouring Arab states.
You have the Palestinian Arabs in Israel, a great number of whom have, at least to some degree, been complicit in the oppression of those in Gaza and the west bank. On top of that, they are considerably more materially wealthy and educated. Wealth redistribution could fix this, but would create resentment. Not doing so would create resentment on the other side.
You have a rift between the secular and non-secular populations, significant differences in beliefs and politics between the west bank and Gaza, you have secular socialists and zealous theocrats, all militarised (by necessity and justly, but militarised nonetheless).
A two state or three state solution is not just, but even with Israel destroyed, could a one-palestine survive even briefly?
or they live under a secular, democratic Palestinian state from the river to the sea where both the Jewish and Arab population live as equals.
I don’t see the people who voted in and fully supported:
the Zionist settler-colonialist project and it’s ambitions, the full extermination of the Palestinian population.
Participating in a secular democratic Palestinian state in good faith. I also don’t see the religious and nationalist zealots that make up the current government and its core supporters agreeing to leave.
but they are all in a United Front against the Zionist regime.
United fronts don’t tend to outlive the enemy they are united against.
I also don’t understand what the your alternative is? Palestine is unstable as fuck under two states. so what are you proposing?
I don’t see how a single state including all of these groups, under a secular democratic government can come into existence.
The sort of societal change necessary would require tactics similar to revolutionary China or Russia, full wealth redistribution, some form of widespread re-education and some form of vanguardist government to oversee the transition. The majority of people in Palestine would not support those measures, and neither would the surrounding powers.
I really hate people who speculate and criticize without offering any actual implementable plans.
My lack of ability to think of a solution to the problem does not stop me from seeing the issues with the ones that are proposed. (Or rather skipped past in most cases.) We all, I would hope, want to see an equal, democratic and secular Palestine from the river to the sea, but how does that happen?
Outdoor cats are destructive to the ecosystem, keeping a pet is the exploitation of an animal and is therefore not vegan, and forcing a vegan diet on an obligate carnivore is , depending on how you do it, either pointless or animal abuse.
While I provide no further argument or justification for these points, understand that I am unchallengably correct as I am the one true Marxist.
The Aztec empire being the dominant force on the continent could be a very unfortunate situation for everyone living there.
They were so unpopular with every surrounding nation (because of all the murdering and kidnapping and human sacrificing) that when the Spanish showed up, the vast vast majority of the soldiers that fought against the Aztecs were from the local peoples.
If they’d endured as independent groups into the 21st century without being colonised by Europeans, as the map shows, they would almost certainly have developed defined borders.
alt text- Cat always lands on her feet. - Bread with butter always fall buttered side down. - Fasten the bread with butter to cat’s back. - Cat will keep rotating and never fall on the ground. - Attach the cat-bread to the generator. - Infinite energy!
Sadly, the design is unfeasible as eventually the rotational force either separates the bread from the butter, or liquidises the internal organs of the cat when they reach peak generating speed.
The rapid disassembly of the mechanism can cause quite an amount of damage as well.
I don’t want to stop eating meat, I want to stop the exploitation and suffering of animals.
While I want to stop the exploitation of animals more than I want to eat meat, if there is a path that allows me to do both, I will have a preference for that path.
The same goes for leather. It’s use isn’t worth what has to be done to create it, but it is a fantastic material with a lot of versatility that’s better than near all alternatives in plenty of applications. Fake leather and synthetic leather are wonderful innovations because we can enjoy the benefits without the negatives, and that’s something to be encouraged rather than avoided.
The fake stuff (and cultivated meat for that matter) are getting closer to parity every year. You don’t go back to something “for the taste”, if the alternative you switched to offers a near identical experience.
how much fake seafood do you see engineered out there?
Crab sticks are usually fake, but generally, fish is harder to immigrate accurately than other meats, and there’s less demand for it since people in the west don’t generally eat tons of fish anyway.
Less demand for real fish means less demand for imitation fish, though there is apparently a company somewhere making lab grown salmon and tuna.
Meat is generally spiced more heavily in warm climates because it spoils faster and hot spices both preserves meat by killing bacteria and disguise a certain degree of spoilage.
I would be surprised if the trend towards hot spices in a country that is generally both warm and humid is because of a difference in palette rather than the reasons above.
Researchers need to afford to live, and that money comes from research grants. If this was even a problem, which it isn’t, the root cause is capitalism.
Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive. (variety.com)
This was inevitable. (startrek.website)
Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor (mander.xyz)
Damn you short cables.... (lemmy.ml)
I always check stuff like this with new appliances, but I guess there’s some people who don’t…
When liberals overcomplicate the Palestinian solution because they don't like the answer (lemmygrad.ml)
Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
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North America before illegal immigration (lemmy.ml)
An oldie but a goodie (thecanadian.social)
alt text- Cat always lands on her feet. - Bread with butter always fall buttered side down. - Fasten the bread with butter to cat’s back. - Cat will keep rotating and never fall on the ground. - Attach the cat-bread to the generator. - Infinite energy!
Modern Life Is Perfect (lemmy.ml)
Vegan food: The west vs India (lemmy.ml)
Joy (mander.xyz)