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Re:Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspe... by Udik on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:15AM (#24158979)
Haha. Well, for what it's worth, I wasn't even referring to Israel with those examples. I was just pushing your argument that "might is right" to its rightful conclusion, to prove its (ethical) absurdity.

> For the most part (emphasis most) conflict hasn't been started by Israel.

Well, so now you're abandoning the "might is right" thing and returning to a sane moral argument, by talking about responsibilities and faults? Excellent. So what should Israel do with those territories that has misappropriated? Don't you think that the precondition for ending a dispute about a stolen good is to return it?

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Re:Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspe... by cik on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:27PM (#24172556)
It's an interesting intellectual argument. Is might is right wrong? Does the ethical validity of it depends on culture? Are there cross species ethics and moral, or are they the product of culture?

I'm neither abandoning, nor condoning the stance. I'm merely stating that this is how conflicts are resolved.

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