Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Bite-sized Philosophy" channel.

@Cat Poverty in 3rd world countries means that there's a strong probability that you don't get to eat every day. A smart phone is out of the question and you've never set foot in a bank. That's more than "sometimes". It's the norm. You should be grateful that you live in the west
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@perlefisker The west left Germany, Italy and Japan largely unpunished after the war because they determined that the Allied reaction after WW1 was a determining factor in the rise of Nazism in Germany. The Treaty of Versailles was a crippler to Germany and a destitute population was ripe for the picking for a movement like Nazism. They weren't going to let that happen, again.
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Will Cumming You're not seriously comparing the masked Antifa types and university "safe space" crybabies to Rosa Parks, are you? Rosa Parks was living in a time of true, institutionalised racism where sitting at the back of the bus was just a part of how blacks were targeted for bigotry. She challenged an unjust law. She was actually charged for not giving up her seat to a white passenger. What unjust law are these wailing banshees protesting. These modern activists create artificial crisis events so they can show the world how enlightened they are. The craziness at Evergreen college is the purest example of how they can create a crisis out of absolutely nothing. They have nothing in common with Rosa Parks and you denigrate her sacrifice and the real bigotry of those times by pretending that these placard carrying, hat-vagina mouthpieces have anything in common with what she did.
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@perlefisker Another reason the Soviets were stigmatised after the war is due to their covert actions that allowed them to develop nuclear weapons. Stalin and Khrushchev still advocated the idea that communism would take over the world and no one in the west wanted that. The Nazis were defeated. The war was over. There now was a new enemy and they were quite open about what their ultimate goal was. Why would the west of that time rail on about a defeated enemy when there was one who was quite clearly threatening them at that very moment.
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Will Cumming Scorn and dismissal is a tactic that is used, quite often, by those who oppose a viewpoint. It's tactless and does not address any issue or topic that is put on the table and is a negative aspect of human nature. Assertions of self evidence is not evidence that an assertion is true. Hard and sterile facts are the proofs that judge an assertion's validity. The American constitution provides that all people within in the US have equal rights under the law. Forcing Rosa Parks to get up so a white person could sit violated her right as a citizen of the US. That was a tangible event, a violation of a constitutional right, that could be demonstrated and proven and that's why it's a high water mark for human rights in the US. What these activists are championing are vague issues, nothing tangible, but floating in the murky waters of accusations without any specificity. It's asserting that speech and beliefs are the same as actions and those who question aspects of their beliefs as violence and deserving of judicial sanctions. I have the right to believe that Rosa Parks' ethnicity should be the criteria for her to give up her seat. I do not have the right to force her to get up. That belief makes a jerk, the enforcement of that belief makes me a criminal and that's when the law should step in. A belief is what I think. An action is what I do. You cannot control my thoughts but you can, under due process of law, control my actions.
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I know what you mean. I've thought about these issues for decades and have even used the Pharisees in my thoughts on the subject but I've never been able to articulate those ideas and thoughts as clearly and coherently as Peterson does in this video. A very remarkable individual.
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Who implied that? I'm not following you.
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Very astute analysis of the criticism that Jesus voiced against the Pharisees and it's so true. Why the public display of virtue and morality? Even more significant, why does the modern activist find it so necessary to vilify others? I'm an atheist but I've found that there are some very incredibly profound ideas and questions that lie within the pages of the Bible. Jesus asserts that no one is deserving of entering the Kingdom of Heaven. What he means is that we all have the roots of destruction within us and that no matter how moral we believe we are, we would always be wrong. What's more, when he talks of the Pharisee's public display of morality, they may be demonstrating, through the self perceived belief in their moral superiority, the idea that they now would also be imbued with the right to challenge others on their obvious lack of morals and have the wisdom to fix it or even put an end to it. That's dangerous and has led to some of the most vile atrocities in human history.
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@drill6739 Socialism definition...... a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Read that part where it says that describes how the means of production should be owned or regulated by the community, again. That means that your vaunted owners, owned companies that were regulated by the "community", which always means the Party. Even the name "Nazi" means, in German, that you're a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. You'd have been a Nationalist, specifically a German Nationalist, and a Socialist, led by the German workers, to form the community that controlled the politics, social and economic life of that country. No company was to have a union. Why would they? They had the Nazi Party and Party officials took the place of Union officials in the larger factories. They'd even hold regular meetings with all the workers, management included, to go over production figures and how dedicated individuals were to the Party. The same thing happened in the Soviet Union. Don't need no stinking unions, the workers are in control now. You're delusional if you think that Mao was some kind of victim of the zealousness of his followers. He knew what was going on and he could have voiced his displeasure while it was going on. In fact, Mao was an ideologue and even his policies, like the killing of song birds and the confiscation of metal tools, killed millions. That's what happens when you leave the complete control of a country to a handful of people. They will make decisions on things they know nothing about and it will invariably end in disaster. I'm appalled that there are still people that would defend the horrific murders, disease and famines that Mao was directly responsible for. The Chinese people had gone through hell, in the past and a political saviour would have instigated a system that gave the people the means to individual responsibility and freedom instead of another version of the autocracies of the Chinese past.
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@dektran4843 You are exactly right. "I am the perfect one" No...you're not.
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I'm a creationist and I've just been triggered. Would the creationist, Christian students in that class be allowed in the safe spaces at that school? I'll bet a white, male, conservative student in a bowtie would get some funny looks in a safe space. Maybe not, though. That would be an indication of bigotry and that student would need another safe space away from those who don't like the looks of white male conservative students. A chapel, maybe? Would that triggered Christian be afforded a chaplain to get over his hurt feelings? So many questions.
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A typical response from someone who talks about the person instead of his ideas. Strange that, for a fascist, he's been strongly critical of Hitler and the abuses of his time as the Fuhrer. However, it could also be that you've not really listened to the guy at all. I'd bet that's the reality of it.
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@paulmorgan4369 Hitler was a powerful speaker. He held his audience enthralled and they hung on his every word. I don't get it. I've read Mein Kampf and listened to him give his speeches. It all sounds nuts to me but I don't count. It's that German audience that counted and they were spell bound. The books I've read, written by those who lived in Germany consistently confirm it. I can't say whether this was intentional on Hitler's part but he definitely had his audience in his hands. It's like listening to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. I thought he sounded whacked but lots of people were moved by his sermons. He had something that attracted him. So did Hitler. I repeat, my assessment of his oratory abilities are irrelevant. It's how the German people received them and they loved it.
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@paulmorgan4369 The Treaty of Versailles caused the economic conditions that left the Germans ripe for resentment. Without the harshness of that Treaty, Hitler would not have had an audience that was ripe for the picking. Had the economic conditions in Germany not been so terrible, Germans wouldn't have followed Hitler or Nazism. People, experiencing good times, would not have felt the anger necessary for Hitler to exploit. That's common sense. It doesn't validate or rationalise Hitler's actions or beliefs. It explains why people followed him. Also, Douglas Murray isn't a Neo-fascist. He did tests on the IQ of certain groups and then he published the results. That's NOT fascism. It's straight out science. One can use that science in a positive or negative manner. Facts aren't racist. It's how one uses those facts that determines whether racism exists in that individual. How does it benefit Murray to say that Jews and Asians, on average, have higher IQs than the race he belongs to? That doesn't even make sense.
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"I'm against oppressive systems". There.....I've done my part to change the world. It works better if you go with some friends and stand on a street corner and proclaim it. Then you can tell each other just how wonderful you are. I remember the hippy days. "All you need is love". So many of them were so sure of it and proclaimed their love for the oppressed of the world while looking right through the unfortunates standing right in front of them. We see that right now in cities like LA, San Francisco and Portland. They show such great empathy for the children "locked in cages" but step over the drug addicted and mentally unstable and do nothing for them. It's easy to be that kind of social activists. It's all talk and no substance.
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