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Think there'd be an interesting thread in this as I both agree and then wonder how you combine it with tolerance and compassion which I want at the bedrock of my politics too. I think there isn't necessarily a contradiction despite appearances. Maybe try thrashing it out some day, bit late here...

It’s not that either. Otherwise they would, y’know, be protecting the weakest and the most in need. It‘s about power and control, especially when it comes to women, and more especially when it comes to women in the midst of life who might conceivably threaten the status quo. Women during...

i've always tried to nurture empathy for criminals, outcasts, even political enemies etc, but after reading those books i can remember thinking "no, there's none. there is zero compassion for this person." he was a near monster in the most literal sense. anyway, derail, apologies.

This is very long, but a good friend just wrote it on the subject being discussed here, and I think it's a very thoughtful and useful contribution, so here ya go (posted with their permission)... -------------------- When Picasso painted his depiction of the victims of the bombing of the...

Yes. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/keir-starmer-police-car-parliament-protesters-lockdown-b981231.html

Okay, I see what you're saying. A couple of points. Right now, I need to find some collaborators. Mainly people who can kick around ideas .... I've got a couple already, but we're not at critical mass yet. So I'm just 'handing out leaflets' so to speak. And yes, there is scope for co...

OK boomer

Good question. I don't know how familiar you are with American political history, but such a transition is not at all unusual. About half the founding editors of National Review -- American flagship conservative journal -- had been Marxists, of one flavor or another. And I'm in touch with, or...

Compassion isn't a word that I have heard anyone use in a long time. Thanks CH1 - lets use it more.

I'm sort of responding to the posts on Futilitarianism. I question whether to understand human dissatisfaction and/or misery we need to create a new label. I think disillusion and despair is a well trodden path in the ethical religions. I'm no Buddhist theologian, but a reading of the charming...

ah well we were wrong with this one: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-home-office-compassion-b1930677.html time to bin the thread :(

I think you'd have done nothing to defend or support the people nicked at the battle of holloway road

Is palathra the covfefe of the anarchist movement?

I think Carry On Up The Bookfair is the clearly the best and most accurate, tho to be fair, delighted to remind everyone they day went fairly smoothly and despite the palathra from this thread and the back channel chit chat, there was a lack of real drama on the day, something I hope we can make...

My relationship with anarchism boils down to: All politics is a question of power, and anarchism is the ultimate critique of power relations < i'm fully subscribed to that. I do my best to apply anarchism in my day to day life: in my working life, with money, in living relationships (with...

Is it any wonder that people are "making their own risk assessments" when it is so patently clear that such assessments as the Government are doing are flimsy, futile, and transparently obviously aimed at achieving the underlying objective - "getting back to normal ASAP"?

It would be nice if this applied to people on both ends of the arguments. I know some perfectly reasonable people who think that potential psychological effects on children of repeated testing, isolation and mask wearing weighs rather heavily against the very low risks from COVID compared to...

You chose to read my post through a lens that was applied uncharitably and without justification. Whether COBRA meetings are or aren't effective isn't the point. The public can reasonably conclude that they are called for good reason. I simply don't believe the government cares about Afghani...

Please forgive me. I know I'm selfish. But I'm lonely (other than Bella,) and hungry for some human interaction. I've barely left home in five years (apart from twice, earlier this year, for my two BionTech jags (aye ... jags! Get in there!) - and have not posted on any medium for too long; too...

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