Re:Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
by dash2 on Saturday December 21, 2024 @07:47PM
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This simply repeats the mind-reading and assuming-the-worst of your original comment.
Re:Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
by aguaviva on Saturday December 21, 2024 @08:26PM
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Well, we disagree about the assuming-the-worst part, then.
I think mine was fair enough take, given what they said vis-a-vis the actual state of the world in the past 15 years or so. Or at pretty much any time since the State of Israel has existed.
As for understanding and inferring the intent of others -- it's an essential life skill, last we checked. Not sure why you'd try to knock it, when evidently it's a normal human capability that we all make use of to one degree or another, pretty much all the time.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
If you think I'm reading too much into their words, then you'll need to provide specific substantiation for this claim. Otherwise your remark is basically a shallow dismissal.
The commenter was really quite clueless when they said "No Western country in recent times has gone through something even remotely similar to what Israel has gone and is going through." To the point that we're forced to ask ourselves if it's even possible for someone be that clueless.
It's also difficult to read that statement other than as suggesting that there must be something awfully special about what Israel is going through. Especially when suffering literally 30x-100x greater (depending on your choice of metric), also ethnically targeted, has been happening right there in the same time zone, just a few notches up (and in a thoroughly Western country which Israel has extensive cultural and ancestral ties with). It's not like it hasn't been in the news.
And nevermind the suffering that has been happening in countries right next to Israel. Because they aren't Western and so don't matter.
The mind simply boggles.