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To date, the ratio of Hamas to civilian deaths in Gaza is about 13,000:15,000.
Breakdown of deaths by age and gender (analysis by professors Michael Spagat and Daniel Silverman), November 2023[56] Men and boys over 14 (35.3%) Women and girls over 14 (24.1%) Children under 15 (33.8%) Elderly, above 60 (6.8%)
Such behavior can be found in the wilderness. Animals eat excessively to accumulate nutrients to prepare for the winter. Some of them stock up on food and hide their treasures in tunnels, burrows, and other secret spots throughout their territory.Modern humans have similar behaviors, but with more sophisticated methods.
The figures I quoted are broadly in line with those given in your reference. If you know of a more reliable source, you can do the calculations yourself.
I have no idea whether Hamas subscribe to age or sex discrimination in their recruitment. In my book, anyone threatening to kill me, or working in a support role for such person, is an enemy combatant. You may have some other definition.
Animals eat excessively to accumulate nutrients to prepare for the winter.
Are there records?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 10/03/2024 12:27:50Animals eat excessively to accumulate nutrients to prepare for the winter. Misuse of "excessive". Only humans eat to the point of being unable to move, or suffer from anorexia.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 10/03/2024 12:39:40Are there records?Yes, but you won't see them until Hamas capitulates. If you have any data on the sex or minimum age requirement to attack another person or support an attacker, you can probably do your own calculations. You might also take a view on the use and fate of human shields. Unless you are a politician or a journalist, war is not a game.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 07/03/2024 22:27:35Such behavior can be found in the wilderness. Animals eat excessively to accumulate nutrients to prepare for the winter. Some of them stock up on food and hide their treasures in tunnels, burrows, and other secret spots throughout their territory.Modern humans have similar behaviors, but with more sophisticated methods.Animals greed was typically limited by the capacity of their stomach. Some can find a way to store more food for longer period, extending the limit on their greed. Invention of money enabled humans to extend their greed even further.
A clip from my conversation about Moral Realism with Matthew Adelstein
If morality were not subjective, it would not change with time. But it does, and continues to do so.
What do 'realism' and 'anti-realism' mean in philosophy? How should we understand the terms, and how do they relate to one another? You'll know in under 5 minutes of this Philosophy Glossary explainer!00:00 - Intro00:34 - Metaphysics00:50 - Definitions01:20 - Different kinds of anti-realism01:37 - Examples02:11 - Not about what causes a thing to exist02:33 - Less clear cases of realism02:49 - Anti-realism03:24 - Idealism03:45 - Berkeley04:33 - More examples05:46 - Wrap up
What are anti-realists and why do they deny objective reality? What we know of the world must come through our senses and be processed by our brains. Both can be unreliable; illusions can fool our senses and illness or injury can disrupt our brains. Therefore, can we ever be sure that anything outside ourselves is truly what it seems?
I like to think of the problem of realism as being analogous to signal processing.A signal is being received, and it's being decomposed to extract all order from it. What's left over is noise.The signal being received is the direct evidence of the universe. It's not that one can precisely know its properties in advance, as the decomposition always yields some leftover noise. But, it does seem overwhelmingly likely that the signal is received rather than internally generated, by its complexity, unpredictability, and verifiability from multiple perspectives.This is a kind of realism whereby theories of the universe necessarily yield some leftover noise, and the unpredictability it implies is fundamental and universal.A deterministic universe, from this perspective, is the purest expression of idealism.Also, it should be noted that there is a social element to realist constructions. In absence of a consistent physical theory of everything, it should be assumed that all assumptions about the true nature of reality are at least a little contingent. The game of realism, then, is to convince others that your fabrications are the most plausible!The mostly likely answer, however, is that we're all at least a little bit wrong.
virtually all religious channels
Science doesn't suppose to be subjective. But it did change over time.
Scrolling through Youtube videos, virtually all religious channels I found defend moral realism, while all defenders of moral anti-realism tend to be non-religious. Some defenders of moral realism are also non-religious.
In this video we offer several arguments in defense of moral realism, the position that objective moral values and duties exist.
0:00 - Moral realism1:48 - Epistemic facts8:19 - Moral experience12:51 - Moral disagreement18:20 - Moral progress and convergence22:39 - Moral intuition
A clip of Hilary Putnam giving a "Reductio Ad Rortyan" argument for moral realism (or against moral anti-realism) and then Nathan Nobis provides a similar such argument, a version of a companion in guilt argument. Note, this is a version of an upload from the previous channel of something that I put together awhile ago.