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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I haven’t had time to go over this in much detail. But you are pushing me in a good direction in developing this kind of account of domination. Much thanks! I now like the following formulation better than the one I ini…

Irfan, I don’t know whom this massive turd, Mosckerr, is, but this Jew challenges him to read Ilan Pappe’s “Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” No one can read this book, written about 18 years before the current genocide even commenced, and remain a Zioni…

In reply to mosckerr. There is no way of to infer the culpability or innocence of people by looking at pictures of the destruction they’ve suffered. The destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto looked a lot like the destruction of Dresden. Were the Jewis…

In reply to Michael Young. On Magoo cases, I think we just need to distinguish culpable and non-culpable versions of Magoo-hood. On employment at will, and “sheer capacity” dominations, I’m a little torn here. Put another way, I think…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The pictures of post WWII germany compare to the destruction of Gaza. Confusing the destruction of Gaza cities with death camps… that’s rather funny. :))) LikeLike

(A) MR MAGOO, ETC. On the kind of approach that I’m wondering about here (and find at least somewhat promising), there is the distinction between (a) X being submissive to Y (in some relevant way, to some relevant extent) and (b) Y dominating X (…

In reply to mosckerr. I’m happy to restore the preceding comment from the trash. I agree with just about every quotation you offer. I’d just point out that invective and defamation aside, you haven’t said a word to rebut anything you …

In reply to Michael Young. I think there’s plenty of room for domination even after you account for intentional cases, quasi-intentional ones, plus the malicious and reckless ones. If Mr Magoo is specifically blind to moral reality, then the domi…