From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 01:33:42 MST
Well, I never said the Palestinians were alright and I didn't
"take their side" or such was not my intent. My intent was to
point out that it is ridiculous to act as if they are totally in
the wrong and that what the Israelis are doing is justifiable.
I certainly agree that there is plenty of nuttiness to go around
on both sides and on all parts of the sidelines as well.
I don't agree that there is nothing that can be done short of
Singularity.
- samantha
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>>If I was Palestinian at this time I would do everything possible
>>to strike back at Israel. If I was Arab I would tend to support
>>any means the Palestinians used to fight back, generally
>>speaking. Making Saddam out to be a monster and justifying yet
>>more US involvement in the area on such a basis is ridiculous.
>>Again, what are you calling terrorism? Is what Israel is
>>currently doing terrorism?
>>
>
> Why take the side of the Palestinians? I know more about this issue than I
> really want to, thanks to my parentage, and you can take it from me that
> both sides are raving nuts. There isn't a "right side" here. The colonial
> powers treated Arab land like a turkey to be carved up, the Jews decided to
> establish their glorious homeland on the most fought-over piece of land in
> Earth's history because God told them to do it, the Palestinians raised
> their hate as high as it would go because God told *them* to do it and
> declared war on the civilians, and Israel decided to hate back. The Jews
> aren't going to move to Canada and the Palestinians aren't going to build a
> liberal democracy and become software engineers. They're just going to go
> on killing and hating. End of story. There isn't a single thing you can do
> about it except unleash the Singularity. So why argue? Why spread the
> hate?
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
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