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If you dont find this interesting, pls explain why

You do realize you didnt actually argue against it being apartheid? You repeated a victim narrative, a common method in fascist systems to normalize crimes against humanity.

Its really worth reading Einsteins notes on Israel.

"“When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations build [sic] up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.”" https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/albert-einstein-the-p...

Should echo in the ears of everyone that ignored Trudeau warning

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/israel-s-gaza-campaign-puts-...

Murderous totalitarian regimes do not work. They quickly turn into mafia states. At its not something you end up in accidentally, its very visible by people falling back onto tribalistic narratives they prefer over reality.

Looking back at Einsteins letter from 1948, its worth remembering, that Hannah Arendt co-wrote it while being a Zionist. Anyone actually interested in a future for Israel should think really hard if revisionist Zionism is a way to achieve that.

This isnt a one way argument. If this is stealing so is pollution reducing throughput sabotage. Prosecuting one but not the other is a value judgement which gets us to the nature of laws. They are not an end in itself and often times so stupid they get changed when unintended implications become clear.

edit: Someone posted https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23799/has-anyon... a bit down with the following comment that highlights this quite well.

At least here in germany, it is unclear whether "stealing" via induction is really stealing, the corresponding law explicitly states that a conductor is necessary. There have been lots of urban myths about it being forbidden, but the fact is that near lots of high power mid wave radio stations you automatically "steal" lots of power, e.g. just by having a neon tube installed in the "correct" direction.

"Crack House USA" was quite the accomplishment in my opinion. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1991025/

Intimate view through surveillance cameras over 6 weeks about the inner working of a crack house. With interviews from law enforcement, families and later convicts. Unorganized crime being the key word here, including drive by shootings by barely adults whos perceived room for maneuvering narrows to the extreme.

On youtube as " Inside A Crack House: US Drug Gangs Exposed (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGK4gGtz44

I dont think you can argue your position without reverting to a sunken cost fallacy or an ideological ignorance of the amount of suffering inflicted through simple existence, even in the best of circumstances.

If you want to argue that suicide is always an option, let me remind you that this is how the Romans justified the conditions of slavery.

I could always be wrong here, but i dont think you are able to explain how. To put it bluntly, fanatics never can. Or want to because they prefer feeling right. Pls do explain how i am wrong here.

Depressive realism might be. And there is no ethical way for me to argue for that.

My link is also not arguing for being depressed. Once you are here, by all means make the best of it. But to give you all a flashback to sex ed, do the right thing and use a condom.