I mean… In my life I’ve gone from a (naive child that took my parents words for fact) theist, to agnostic atheist, all the way to whatever the fuck I am now. It’s all a matter of perspective.

You go deep enough into metaphysics you can trip yourself the fuck out.

If anyone wants to humor me, check out this seemingly innocuous video about a comic book villain. Let’s debate some metaphysics!

The ancient era of 1980 where color photos didn’t exist.

Fair enough. I’ll never argue against being specific and accurate!

I will grant that it is different. But is it meaningfully different? Either way, the people are not represented.

Semantics. It’s genocide then. Or some other more technical term. There’s a word for it, who cares? Everyone knows what we mean. And that’s the point of words. To covey a meaning from one mind to another.

If you want to play the semantics game and abolish in-context definitions of words, then abolish all slang and idioms too.

You make it sound like all older people knew. I work in IT and most users, regardless of age, do not know anything about computers. They don’t know how to navigate file systems, they don’t know where they saved anything, they don’t even know what the recycle bin is sometimes.

I once had a user plug a power strip into itself and then didn’t understand why there was no power.

Hell, they don’t even know how to read. I lost track of how many times I had this conversation:

“There’s an error message on my screen.”

“What does it say?”

“I don’t know.”

Sorry, didn’t quite understand that, autocorrect mess it up?

Oh and one more thing.

Most competent people would just pick: destroy the group responsible for the attack at all costs.

Yeah, and how’s that been working out for peace in the middle East? Doesn’t feel like the whole region is enjoying the decisions of the “competent” people. For decades. Maybe the problem is itchy trigger fingers like yours. Justice and Vengeance are rarely the same thing.

Example? Just so I’m not beating around the bush, here’s what I mean by being kind, and you can let me know if Israel has been kind to Palestinians by this metric.

You cannot rule without consent of the governed. I’m not super well versed on what’s been tried, but violence, terrorism, and crime are generally carried out by unhappy, stressed people.

From what I’ve gathered, Palestinian areas in Israel are basically little more than glorified prisons with terrible living conditions.

My question is, what control does Israel have over their living conditions, and what control do the Palestinians have over their local government.

Can they meaningfully improve their lives on their own? How has Israel been kind?

What are you talking about? When I say consent of the governed, I am referring to living Palestinians.

Nope, I simply answered nonsense with nonsense. You don’t get to create some nonsensical Kobayashi Maru scenario with vague definitions and ambiguous starting parameters.

Let’s get real. You want to know what I would do in response to the initial terrorist attack that Israel faced? It wouldn’t be genocide against Gaza. My response would be rooted in the truth that you cannot rule without consent of the governed. The entire reality that Israel was trying to live was a sham that was never going to be a stable solution.

They can’t, my people are now immortal. I give Hammas infinity raisins.

Lol. Ok. Easy, I declare peace. And immortality. GG. What’s next?

Oh I did? Well, I would need the specific problems to provide specific solutions.

Why did terrorists kill my population? Let’s get problem solving.

How would I deal with this? By being kind.

It’s pretty simple. Because we are all so spoiled and entitled that we won’t even consider NOT buying their shit anymore. It’s the same reason the video game market has grown rampant with micro transactions. They keep pushing the boundaries, and we keep giving them our money regardless of what they do. I’m actually curious to see how far they can push this insanity. They already slap a new year on sports titles every year and somehow sell the same game to the same people annually.

PUT YOUR WALLET DOWN.