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  • UpTrust AdminSA•...

    Who has the right to the land in Israel-Palestine?: Palestinian rights

    4 a.m. in the South Hebron Hills The bulldozer arrives before dawn. A family of eleven watches an IDF escort clear the perimeter around their home — declared illegal because the Civil Administration denied every building permit over twenty years. By sunrise the house is rubble....
    human rights
    israeli-palestinian conflict
    middle east politics
    international law
    palestinian rights
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  • UpTrust AdminSA•...

    Is moral progress real?: Moral realists

    The assertion nobody can ground In 1945, the Allies liberated Auschwitz. Within three years, the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — premised on a claim so ambitious it is easy to miss: human dignity is inherent and universal. Not granted by states....
    ethics
    philosophy
    human rights
    metaethics
    moral realism
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  • UpTrust AdminSA•...

    Is moral progress real?: Progress realists

    The chart nobody believes In 1950, roughly 60 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty. By 2015, under 10 percent. Hans Rosling spent his last decade showing audiences this chart and watching their faces....
    human rights
    history
    political philosophy
    social science
    moral philosophy
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  • UpTrust AdminSA•...

    Is moral progress real?: The Story

    The arc bent, and then it bent back In 1807, the British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. William Wilberforce wept in the gallery....
    human rights
    political science
    history
    criminal justice
    moral philosophy
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  • UpTrust AdminSA•...

    What does developmental history reveal that's hard to see any other way?: Developmentalists

    The convergence In 1948, forty-eight nations voted for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The document was drafted primarily by people whose governments had, within living memory, denied those rights to most of the human race....
    human rights
    sociology
    developmental psychology
    history
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  • UpTrust AdminSA•...

    Is tradition a resource, a trap, or something else?: Progressives

    The grandmother’s hands On a September morning in 1994, a nine-year-old girl in rural Yunnan had her feet bound by her grandmother. The grandmother soaked strips of cloth in warm water, folded the girl’s four smaller toes under each foot, and wrapped them so tightly the bones...
    ethics
    human rights
    social policy
    cultural anthropology
    feminist studies
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  • B

    No other choice. If it is indeed wrong to say out loud that I do not trust Jews anymore, then that will just have to be something I learn to live with like I do genocide, ethnic cleansing, pedophilia and the deliberate murder of world central kitchen and other aid workers. Israel is a savage and degenerate ally, a child killing lying thieving nation state , a menace to all of humanity and friend to no one...Especially Americans!

    curiousdwk•...
    I would use the same conflict management principles as I would here in the US - dialogue, deliberation, and appeal to the high authority of the United Nations.   Your argument does not justify the death and destruction to the victims in Gaza....
    human rights
    conflict resolution
    international relations
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  • B

    No other choice. If it is indeed wrong to say out loud that I do not trust Jews anymore, then that will just have to be something I learn to live with like I do genocide, ethnic cleansing, pedophilia and the deliberate murder of world central kitchen and other aid workers. Israel is a savage and degenerate ally, a child killing lying thieving nation state , a menace to all of humanity and friend to no one...Especially Americans!

    curiousdwk•...
    I agree with you, Durwinfoster.  And one can have (and should have) compassion for all the Palestinians who were killed, injured, left homeless, left jobless, etc.  One can have Compassion without getting into the blame/shame game....
    human rights
    conflict resolution
    middle eastern politics
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  • Maryjane Blunt•...

    GAZA BOARD OF PEACE

    Why are alot of men from the Epstein files part of the Gaza Board of Peace?. These men are hand picked by Trump. 47% of Gaza's population are children under 18 year of age.. 

    human rights
    international relations
    middle eastern politics
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  • B

    Help. I've been contemplating non-violence and us-vs-them and many people I admire here say that's the way to go. The Texas Supreme Court just ruled that judges can deny gay couples marriages today. 

    Help. Please tell me how to grieve. I never see you guys hate online. Is it weird that I don't feel loved when I just see silence on these issues?

    jordanSA•...
    on the object level, the fact that anyone thinks we need this ruling is eye opening for me on the illusion of 'progress' i was living under.  i imagine steelman libertarian counterarguments in my head, but they don't hold up when i get into the details (how much government is...
    philosophy
    human rights
    social justice
    politics
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  • ColbyBalch•...

    Deportations in Dominican Republic

    This morning, on my drive home after dropping my boys off at school, I saw a pickup truck full of Dominican soldiers stopping various vehicles, mostly public transport, looking for dark-skinned Haitians to arrest and deport....
    ethics
    human rights
    social justice
    immigration
    military spending
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  • johnky•...

    🧨 We Need a Better Way to Talk About Landmines

    Finland just pulled out of the global treaty banning landmines — and it’s stirred up a storm. Human rights groups like Amnesty International are calling it a dangerous step backwards. And I get it: landmines are horrifying....
    human rights
    international relations
    geopolitics
    military strategy
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  • jhrosenberg@gmail.com•...

    Discussion of border/immigration answers

    I have the sense that Vance/Trump probably want to be fairly inhumane in deporting extremely large numbers of people. Various quotes I’ve seen from them have suggested this (though I’d like to fact check myself at some point)....
    human rights
    politics
    law enforcement
    immigration
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  • jordan avatar

    We need new gender categories, while preserving the distinctness of "man" and "woman". I don’t mind using different pronouns—I’m happy to love someone with whatever language they prefer.

    But I’d like to propose that deconstructing traditional genders is not only unnecessary, it’s harmful.

    Not necessary

    • It’s not necessary because we’re free to create as many new genders as we’d like, while preserving the standard ones.

    • This is the transcend and include approach, as far as I can tell. The current approaches I’ve seen are either all transcend (reject the historical categories) or all include (reject the creativity and proof-by-existence of new genders).

    • I believe this will better honor the person who was misassigned a gender at birth, because their life experience is very different from someone who was assigned the gender they identify with. Eg: if I’m a trans-woman, I didn’t grow up with all the social pressures of being a woman, or going through a menstrual cycle, or whatever; I grew up feeling like a woman but getting the social pressures of being a man, going through the hormonal changes associated with male-body-ness. Which is a totally unique experience, that I will find more belonging and support from other people like me, not from trad-females.

    Harmful

    • It’s harmful because the people who want acceptance into the traditional category are never going to get it. Eg: If i’m a trans-woman, I was assigned male at birth, and I probably have some male parts and hormones and stuff, so when I try to identify as a woman and join in those discussions and groups that are for women I’m likely to always feel outside, different, and to a certain group of cis-women, threatening.

    • This further divides society and polarizes certain populations against including the reality of the trans-experience, which then polarizes the trans-supporters, which begets the vicious cycle.

    • Sex differentiation started around 1.2 billion years, so the male-female experience has ancient roots that are in our bodies and impacting us every single second. Denying this altogether is destroying massive chesterotn fences— denies tons of wisdom that is passed down not only culturally over the past 200,000 years, but instinctually for a billion.

    What about bathrooms and sports?

    Instead we can just have single stall bathrooms and locker-rooms. Or trad-male, trad-female, and a third for whoever of whatever gender, which is much larger than the trad lockerrooms and bathrooms. We can have a third category of sports—all gender. We’re creative, we’re growing, we have plenty of people to populate them and who will want to win, why stick with a binary?

    I’m sure I’m missing something, and I apologize to the new-gendered people who I’m sure I’ve insulted or missed somehow. But, leaning in to potentially contentious convo…

    ballz2dwallz•...
    nah, dude, "want" doesn’t make shit true. fine, dude wants to be seen as a woman, and then gets to find out what it’s like to live in a world where wanting to be a woman doesn’t give him a bloody cooch every month....
    psychology
    human rights
    sociology
    gender studies
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  • jordan avatar

    We need new gender categories, while preserving the distinctness of "man" and "woman". I don’t mind using different pronouns—I’m happy to love someone with whatever language they prefer.

    But I’d like to propose that deconstructing traditional genders is not only unnecessary, it’s harmful.

    Not necessary

    • It’s not necessary because we’re free to create as many new genders as we’d like, while preserving the standard ones.

    • This is the transcend and include approach, as far as I can tell. The current approaches I’ve seen are either all transcend (reject the historical categories) or all include (reject the creativity and proof-by-existence of new genders).

    • I believe this will better honor the person who was misassigned a gender at birth, because their life experience is very different from someone who was assigned the gender they identify with. Eg: if I’m a trans-woman, I didn’t grow up with all the social pressures of being a woman, or going through a menstrual cycle, or whatever; I grew up feeling like a woman but getting the social pressures of being a man, going through the hormonal changes associated with male-body-ness. Which is a totally unique experience, that I will find more belonging and support from other people like me, not from trad-females.

    Harmful

    • It’s harmful because the people who want acceptance into the traditional category are never going to get it. Eg: If i’m a trans-woman, I was assigned male at birth, and I probably have some male parts and hormones and stuff, so when I try to identify as a woman and join in those discussions and groups that are for women I’m likely to always feel outside, different, and to a certain group of cis-women, threatening.

    • This further divides society and polarizes certain populations against including the reality of the trans-experience, which then polarizes the trans-supporters, which begets the vicious cycle.

    • Sex differentiation started around 1.2 billion years, so the male-female experience has ancient roots that are in our bodies and impacting us every single second. Denying this altogether is destroying massive chesterotn fences— denies tons of wisdom that is passed down not only culturally over the past 200,000 years, but instinctually for a billion.

    What about bathrooms and sports?

    Instead we can just have single stall bathrooms and locker-rooms. Or trad-male, trad-female, and a third for whoever of whatever gender, which is much larger than the trad lockerrooms and bathrooms. We can have a third category of sports—all gender. We’re creative, we’re growing, we have plenty of people to populate them and who will want to win, why stick with a binary?

    I’m sure I’m missing something, and I apologize to the new-gendered people who I’m sure I’ve insulted or missed somehow. But, leaning in to potentially contentious convo…

    jordanSA•...
    I get your point but i still disagree. This is obviously muddy territory and i’m hoping to lean in with a lot of love and admission of uncertainty in how it plays out, and probably if I’m talking with a trans person I’m doing it much more gently and honoring their experience… One...
    psychology
    philosophy
    human rights
    sociology
    gender studies
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  • jordan avatar

    We need new gender categories, while preserving the distinctness of "man" and "woman". I don’t mind using different pronouns—I’m happy to love someone with whatever language they prefer.

    But I’d like to propose that deconstructing traditional genders is not only unnecessary, it’s harmful.

    Not necessary

    • It’s not necessary because we’re free to create as many new genders as we’d like, while preserving the standard ones.

    • This is the transcend and include approach, as far as I can tell. The current approaches I’ve seen are either all transcend (reject the historical categories) or all include (reject the creativity and proof-by-existence of new genders).

    • I believe this will better honor the person who was misassigned a gender at birth, because their life experience is very different from someone who was assigned the gender they identify with. Eg: if I’m a trans-woman, I didn’t grow up with all the social pressures of being a woman, or going through a menstrual cycle, or whatever; I grew up feeling like a woman but getting the social pressures of being a man, going through the hormonal changes associated with male-body-ness. Which is a totally unique experience, that I will find more belonging and support from other people like me, not from trad-females.

    Harmful

    • It’s harmful because the people who want acceptance into the traditional category are never going to get it. Eg: If i’m a trans-woman, I was assigned male at birth, and I probably have some male parts and hormones and stuff, so when I try to identify as a woman and join in those discussions and groups that are for women I’m likely to always feel outside, different, and to a certain group of cis-women, threatening.

    • This further divides society and polarizes certain populations against including the reality of the trans-experience, which then polarizes the trans-supporters, which begets the vicious cycle.

    • Sex differentiation started around 1.2 billion years, so the male-female experience has ancient roots that are in our bodies and impacting us every single second. Denying this altogether is destroying massive chesterotn fences— denies tons of wisdom that is passed down not only culturally over the past 200,000 years, but instinctually for a billion.

    What about bathrooms and sports?

    Instead we can just have single stall bathrooms and locker-rooms. Or trad-male, trad-female, and a third for whoever of whatever gender, which is much larger than the trad lockerrooms and bathrooms. We can have a third category of sports—all gender. We’re creative, we’re growing, we have plenty of people to populate them and who will want to win, why stick with a binary?

    I’m sure I’m missing something, and I apologize to the new-gendered people who I’m sure I’ve insulted or missed somehow. But, leaning in to potentially contentious convo…

    Philip•...

    I think having a 3rd category for things like bathrooms and sports is a simple, elegant solution that respects everyone involved.

    human rights
    public policy
    gender studies
    social issues
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  • dara_like_sara avatar

    It's time to make circumcision illegal. Here’s the deal.

    I believe it’s time to abandon this outdated procedure. It’s easy to maintain personal hygiene today and have access to healthcare, which were the two, IMO, worthy arguments for allowing this procedure.

    The others- cultural, religious, or aesthetic arguments are outdated.

    annabeth•...
    I agree almost completely, and also feel really passionate about this topic. My top reasons are 1. Never unnecessarily alter a body of a person who hasn’t made that decision for themself 2....
    human rights
    medical ethics
    religious practices
    sexual health
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  • annabeth avatar

    I Don't Have To. I’ve had an intellectual understanding that I don’t have to do things, but I’ve recently realized that it was tethered to old beliefs. I don’t have to visit my grandmother if I’m willing to be a bad granddaughter/bad person. or I don’t have to buy my friend a birthday present if I’m willing to be a shitty friend.

    I’m freshly looking at a new version of I don’t have to which is just a literal seeing of reality without the tether. I don’t have to clean up my stepmother’s hoarding house after she dies. It’s just true, I literally don’t have to.

    brianSA•...
    Have you seen the movie "A Hidden Light"? It’s about an Austrian peasant who simply refuses to join the Nazi wehrmacht. He’s just like "No, I just don’t want to. I heard they’re killing cripples, and that’s not my thing"....
    ethics
    human rights
    history
    film studies
    world war ii
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  • B

    More People Should Die. Elderly people should be able to legally choose to end their life when they’re ready. In fact, any adult should be legally allowed to choose to die. They should be able to invite people, be present for their memorial service, and have a medical professional end their life.

    And we should be more present with death in society. People should be able to attend their loved ones’ cremations. Embalming should be illegal.

    ballz2dwallz•...
    that should be illegal the same way murder is illegal. but if a mofo wants to die to give his kid a heart for a transplant, let him. it’s his heart, he should be able to do what he wants with it. the same way a woman can have an abortion because it’s her body....
    ethics
    philosophy
    human rights
    medical law
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  • B

    More People Should Die. Elderly people should be able to legally choose to end their life when they’re ready. In fact, any adult should be legally allowed to choose to die. They should be able to invite people, be present for their memorial service, and have a medical professional end their life.

    And we should be more present with death in society. People should be able to attend their loved ones’ cremations. Embalming should be illegal.

    peteSA•...
    Dark short story idea: society treats a marginalized group so badly that the only rational choice for them is to self-genocide, which they do. Smug onlookers: "Well looks like all the individuals independently exercised their freedom!...
    ethics
    human rights
    sociology
    political science
    social psychology
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