Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "International court to investigate possible war crimes in Ukraine" video.
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You’re right, of course. We have more double standards than a priest at a Boy Scout jamboree. Playing all moral and ethical to the people, but changing/bending these rules to fit our sneaky self-interest. As I see it, the trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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When you nationalise the terms you are perpetuating the very thing that is causing humanity’s collective nightmare, along with organised religion. Don’t you see this? The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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Why not just say ‘respect human beings for helping other human beings’? When you nationalise this you are guilty of perpetuating a large part of the very problem that started this in the first place. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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I agree. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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@eeboyaker I would also add this, it’s not really the point in terms of self-determination. If a sovereign nation, through the democratically-expressed will of the people, want to be part of NATO, and NATO wants them in the gang, so to speak, then this should be honoured. I do feel NATO has far more to fear from a Putin-lead Russia than Russia has to fear from NATO. As far as I’m aware the treaty has been invoked only once in NATO history: by the United States after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s just tough luck if Russia can’t handle the democratic will of another sovereign nation which happens to sit on its doorstep. If a family move in next door to me and I take a dislike to them, then I have no right in interfering just on the basis of this. This should be self-evident. I would also add here, I don’t have any figures to quote you but I’m willing to bet a good majority of ordinary Russians (and especially the under-35s), are not in favour of this war, seeing Putin, rightly in my opinion, as an old Cold War relic getting his belated revenge for losing that particular battle.👀
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@eeboyaker I’m still not sure what you’re getting at. What is NATO’s endgame? You need to spell this out. Yes, but the majority of Ukrainians look West. Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power. Have you not considered this? We don’t even apply sanctions? You seem to be suggesting we just turn a blind eye and let Putin massacre a nation in plain sight. And then turn his attention elsewhere. The Baltic states? Poland? 👀 I’d like to politely ask you something else: do you have any personal stake in this? Of course, you can refuse to answer this, but you appear very anti-NATO, and if not exactly pro-Putin, you at least are happy fellow human beings look on and watch fellow human beings be annihilated. 🧐As I say, I don’t defend the west’s record of meddling in the affairs of democratically elected regimes, but on a human level I want to help stop Putin from his sanguinary murdering.👀 Leaving the geopolitics out of this, for me, the basic fact pertains: if a self-determining majority want something, and Ukrainians on a majority appear to want to look west, then that’s the bottom line, for me. Regardless of the overthrow in 2012, which I’m not defending, one needs to adhere to the democratic will of the people here. Don’t you agree?🧐 Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election. With nearly all ballots counted in the run-off vote, Mr Zelensky had taken more than 73% with incumbent Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind on 24%. I thought you said he was installed by the west?🧐Even more confused.
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