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A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
(March 20, 2022 at 7:24 am)Jehanne Wrote:
(March 20, 2022 at 4:10 am)Belacqua Wrote: The Iraq War started 19 years ago this week.

None of the people who lied to start it has been held accountable.

The journalists who accurately predicted what would happen (e.g. Chris Hedges) were fired, while those who supported the lies were promoted. 

It is NOT more possible now to hold powerful people accountable.

Live babies being taken out of incubators; ironically, similar false claims were, as I recall, made to justify involvement in World War I.  Also, "Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!"  And, by the way, those U2 flights were really about weather research.

Plato, in the Republic, said lying politicians were okay, and that such is necessary.

That is an example of where the system is faulty.
Going to war with Iraq is a state level decision and to hold accountable the people involved, you usually need a state level organization that can take them to court.
Or, you need the population of the USA to protest until some state level organization does something about it. However, the population is busy with their daily lives, going shopping, watching sports, take the kid to kindergarden, ....
So, the number of citizens who care and will protest is probably very low.
At the UN level, the USA has many friends and those friends probably do not want to upset the USA.

We also have to take the news outlets into account. They were telling us how evil Sadam Hussein is. So, it made it look like a good idea to bombard Iraq. The reality is that many innocent people who aren’t interested in fighting died.

Take the case of Ukraine vs Russia. Every news channel tells us how evil and mad Putin is. What they don’t tell us is that there was peace just a few years ago. The problem was initiated by an anti-russian policy from Ukraine in ~Jan 2014 and later on, they tried to join NATO.
It is part of USA foreign policy to get every ex-Soviet nation to join it and to isolate Russia.
What’s the purpose of NATO? The Russians probably see it as an organization that wants to setup an army to invade Russia.

Take the case of Armenia vs Azerbaijan in Sep 2020. Azerbaijan continually attacks the Artsakh-Kharabagh region and is trying to take it back.
What the news outlets don’t tell you:
According to the UN, Artsakh-Kharabagh belongs to Azerbaijan.
According to who? Soviet Russia, I think it was during Stalin’s time, gave some Armenia’s land to Azerbaijan, some to Georgia.
Why does the UN respect that decision?
There are ancient maps that show those regions were part of Armenia.

That issue started with the breakup of the Soviet union in 1991. How is it that the UN is backing Azerbaijan? Is it because of the petrol fields? Armenia has none and Azerbaijan has plenty.

CONCLUSION: At the international level, at the presidential level, politics gets dirty and news media tend to misrepresent or choose what to present and what not to present to people.
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RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ? - by Ferrocyanide - March 22, 2022 at 9:23 pm

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