• soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Don’t move the goalposts. You didn’t say we don’t. You said we aren’t able. We absolutely are.

    Oh, i agree then, except in the case of apology of terrorism/enemies.

    And indeed Palestine is easy( tell that to our medias and governments though), but i’d be interested if you know of a counter-example to our double standards(, at least once we’re interested in a conflict, it’s at this moment that we attribute a range of good and evil people, and are disinterested in the fate of the supposedly evil ones).

    And the initial thread was more, since it is showerthoughts, that i haven’t thought of things that way, it is indeed a true statement, and more because of tribalism than the way language work, but w/e if i was wrong(, and one option doesn’t exclude the other anyway).

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      Why do you keep trying to connect this to the outdated notion of tribes? You seem to have a conclusion planned and are trying to build arguments towards it. That’s not how logic works.

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        Tribes or nationalism, what’s the difference except perhaps size ?
        I’m just explaining why i saw an interest in this sentence.

        And if it’s a commentary on human nature, then we’re fucked, i like the current meaning of being humane. I know we’re capable of the best, we’re simply not perfect and must improve, abandoning tribalism/nationalism and helping each other has been asked for millenias and it may happen but i hope it won’t be at the cost of our diversity.

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          Tribes or nationalism, what’s the difference except perhaps size ?

          Did you hear me championing nationalism?

          if it’s a commentary on human nature, then we’re fucked,

          You’re all over the place, dude.

          i like the current meaning of being humane.

          Okay??

          I know we’re capable of the best, we’re simply not perfect and must improve

          I can agree here.

          abandoning tribalism/nationalism and helping each other has been asked for millenias and it may happen but i hope it won’t be at the cost of our diversity.

          I believe it can happen, without sacrificing diversity.

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              Fuck no. I don’t agree that someone can be assumed selfish and tribalistic for not reading your mind when you vaguely refer to tragedy.

              Let me try: there’s been a murder! Can you guess where it was??

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                You’re absolutely right, the truthfulness of this sentence doesn’t teach us that someone is tribalistic by assuming it happened locally.

                It’s only my assumption that an answer to “in the Middle-East” would be “Ah ? Ok, i was afraid for a while(, i thought it was on our side)” that made me thought that. I understand that it was received as an unfair accusation yet i included myself in this and found this assumption more interesting by its truthfulness.

                As i wrote in the selftext :

                In the end, i found this statement more interesting than it ought to be, as if it taught us something. Our actions are tribal/destructive and there’s enough proof for this, but this statement isn’t one of them.