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  • Except that at those times, you could absolutely compare slave economies to non slave economies, and the non slave economies were healthier

    It’s why during the civil war, the north was so much more powerful than the south

    Turns out that if you stifle the potential of half your population, lock them in bondage, and assign a significant portion of the rest to watching them, it’s not very efficient. It’s better to just pay people, even discarding the abominable immorality of slavery and focusing on just economic efficiencies.











  • If the hospital is a military base, it makes sense that supplies would be cut off to it.

    There’s no way to escape the fact that war is terrible. But we do have things called the rules of war which brings the horrible nature of it down a couple notches. Driving around military forces under a red cross is a war crime, pure and simple, for exactly this reason - if a military force doesn’t have the honor to respect the sanctity of lifesaving medical care, then they’re going to make every medical center into a potential target for attack.

    I am not a fan of everything Israel has done, but they’re clearly the better people in this scenario.







  • The 1948 war was started by Arabs who rejected the partition plan. Israel won that. Vae victis, don’t start wars if you’re not prepared to deal with the consequences.

    You’re right that Israel has been stealing land - in the West Bank, via illegal settlements. They should withdraw those settlers, but it is irrelevant to the issue of Hamas because the last settlements in Gaza were demolished in 2005.

    I’m not pro Israel. What I am is someone who is anti Hamas, and I’m not going to pretend that the Israelis are chuckling monsters who enjoy murdering babies for the fun of it.