Hieronymus
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Hieronymus
12d ago
The problem with that argument is that human relationships are not zero-sum. ... You can't just conduct the cruelty you receive from the people above you to the people below you and be content that you arrive at net zero. No amount of wife-beating is going to make up for the fact that you will get black lung disease.
Absolutely. But a lot of feminist takes are also based on the zero-sum view, and they have the same flaw. If the abuse of our coal miner's marital authority is negative-sum, it remains possible – and, I believe, true – that the proper use of his authority is positive-sum.
Hieronymus
18d ago
Also, I think Firefox on most platforms (Windows, most notably) trusts the OS's CA list ...
As I understand the documentation, it trusts root certs that have been added to the OS by an administrator or user but not those included by Microsoft or Apple.
Hieronymus
29d ago
My experience is that UMC pastors didn't believe in hell thirty or more years ago, but I think it varied by region before the split with the GMC.
Okay, I am way out of my depth here. But I nevertheless have a couple thoughts.
If somehow the gulf states unite and defeat Israel militarily, given the horrific deaths the Israelis would likely meet at the hands of an invading Arab army, …
I would not take this for granted. I am sure that there would be atrocities regardless, but I think that some surrounding nations, were they running the show, would elect for an ethnic cleansing over a true genocide.
… I have little doubt that Israel would elect to glass the entire region.
This is possible, because there are those who treat the survival of Israel and the survival of the Jewish people as fundamentally the same thing, but I think it would be a straightforward mistake even from the perspective of self-interest. If Israeli Jews were fleeing ahead of an Arab army, or being expelled by an Arab Palestinian state, any number of Western countries would be happy to take them in. A retaliatory nuclear strike by Israel would threaten this in a way that few other things could.
Edit: For the avoidance of doubt, I endorse neither ethnic cleansing nor genocide, in either direction.
Hieronymus
29d ago
“Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.” I’m not sure that applies to disagreements over refugees and welfare.
I think that depends on details we’re not privy to. Is anything he’s promoting sinful, or is it simply imprudent? Is he presenting his views on these policies as God’s revealed will, speaking where God hasn’t spoken, or is he honest that they are his attempt to apply Christian principles however imperfectly?
But honestly that’s not where I’d start. Blue tribe alignment isn’t the most important question, but it is often related to more important questions. So I’d move past the tribal question and ask those. It matters whether you’re dealing with Harry Emerson Fosdick or Tim Keller.
I can't speak for the grandparent, but there are political arrangements in between 21st-century egalitarian democracies and 21st-century totalitarian states. I don't know how many of them suit modern America very well, but they certainly exist.
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