The Real Dezaad

Good lord. Has Bezos watched the person whose inauguration he helped fund? Like, on any day ending in ...day? For a whole decade plus of days? WTAF?

Sigh. It's hopeless because too many just want something to bitch about.

1/ One of the problems we have today in the world is people believing there is a difference between logic and opinion. Doing our best to personally apply logic to a situation doesn’t transform our conclusions from opinion to fact. I had said “In your opinion.” And this was the response:

3/ And because of this, they also involve considerable time. It should be wholly unsurprising to us that reasoning is actually inherently a social process requiring long patience, but people do forget it often. It is because of all this that analysis of complex political matters become elevated

1/ One of the problems we have today in the world is people believing there is a difference between logic and opinion. Doing our best to personally apply logic to a situation doesn’t transform our conclusions from opinion to fact. I had said “In your opinion.” And this was the response:

1/ In their frustration at Trump and many others' support of Israel, people are desperate to label the horrors perpetrated in #Gaza a #Genocide. In his #NYT opinion this morning #Gessen performs a calculation, which I think ignores a key thing. First, It is reasonable for Israel to defend itself

9/ impactful words to, well, have more impact. But, I believe words depicting horrors each have different impacts, and ethnic cleansing is the impactful phrase/word that still applies, not genocide.

1/ In their frustration at Trump and many others' support of Israel, people are desperate to label the horrors perpetrated in #Gaza a #Genocide. In his #NYT opinion this morning #Gessen performs a calculation, which I think ignores a key thing. First, It is reasonable for Israel to defend itself

7/ calculations are excessive and disproportionate. I also believe the reason they make them this way is to create terror. And the reason they want to create terror is to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian areas. For the foregoing reasons, I believe we must morally drop our support for Israel

1/ In their frustration at Trump and many others' support of Israel, people are desperate to label the horrors perpetrated in #Gaza a #Genocide. In his #NYT opinion this morning #Gessen performs a calculation, which I think ignores a key thing. First, It is reasonable for Israel to defend itself

5/ assuming we're not starting from these places, Israel does get to cause some non-combatant Palestinian deaths without incurring moral outrage. The question is not necessarily 'how many', but rather 'what makes the number of deaths reasonable per strike', which is exactly what Israel is

1/ In their frustration at Trump and many others' support of Israel, people are desperate to label the horrors perpetrated in #Gaza a #Genocide. In his #NYT opinion this morning #Gessen performs a calculation, which I think ignores a key thing. First, It is reasonable for Israel to defend itself

3/ in principle at least, reasonable. It happens some in every war. Every single one. The only people who can question this in a logically consistent way are pacifists, who start from the assumption all war is known to be forbidden. Indeed, to get around this, many people start from the

1/ In their frustration at Trump and many others' support of Israel, people are desperate to label the horrors perpetrated in #Gaza a #Genocide. In his #NYT opinion this morning #Gessen performs a calculation, which I think ignores a key thing. First, It is reasonable for Israel to defend itself

1/ Woke people are wrong to believe #empathy is the right basis to believe woke things. #objectivity is the correct basis for making "woke" arguments. An argument based primarily on empathy is already lost. Empathy is where we should start as a guide, and in the absence of better arguments one

10/ and reason support our intuitive kindness and compassion far, far more than they support the cruelty usually embodied by the right - though not solely of course. Sometime true compassion DOES warrant harshness. Things are not black and white. But, normally, the left will win more of the time.

1/ Woke people are wrong to believe #empathy is the right basis to believe woke things. #objectivity is the correct basis for making "woke" arguments. An argument based primarily on empathy is already lost. Empathy is where we should start as a guide, and in the absence of better arguments one

8/ it, a good person must try to satisfy both demands of empathy; and for this, they must turn to facts and objective reason. We must weigh all the injustices, if any, posed by empathy. Think them through, and if they remain in conflict after analysis, find some kind of balanced compromise.

1/ Woke people are wrong to believe #empathy is the right basis to believe woke things. #objectivity is the correct basis for making "woke" arguments. An argument based primarily on empathy is already lost. Empathy is where we should start as a guide, and in the absence of better arguments one

6/ group is of the kind that insists women must be believed. And of course any society that believes women by default will exact an even greater toll from men in such situations. Yet I have heard zero woke people say that such men deserve the benefit of empathy. From the perspective of empathy

1/ Woke people are wrong to believe #empathy is the right basis to believe woke things. #objectivity is the correct basis for making "woke" arguments. An argument based primarily on empathy is already lost. Empathy is where we should start as a guide, and in the absence of better arguments one

4/ matters. I am doing so precisely because it is a hot button issue, and because of that serves to illustrate my point. But, it applies to a vast number of empathy based argumentation. Empathy does feed this notion. We feel bad for women who have this dreadful experience and we feel bad for

1/ Woke people are wrong to believe #empathy is the right basis to believe woke things. #objectivity is the correct basis for making "woke" arguments. An argument based primarily on empathy is already lost. Empathy is where we should start as a guide, and in the absence of better arguments one

2/ way or the other, is sometimes the only thing we have to go on. But, ultimately facts and reasoned objective argument must be developed to justify public policy and social norms. One fundamental reason for this is that empathy is most often fantastically in conflict with itself. Usually, woke

If only there had been a way to know how awful he is in advance!!