Oddbean new post about login | logout This explains alot of your other opinions lol
I am not sure what your point is or which opinions you are referencing. This explains the opinions I expressed in this note. I have a wide array of opinions on many topics that I spend time researching and thinking about.
You've never lived in a foreign country, that explains your perspective on the Israel Palestine war. Chauvanism is fine until it crosses the line of fanaticism and ignorance.
i've lived in eastern europe a lot of the last 12 years... and i very nearly was in ukraine, or kazakhstan or siberia i can assure you that it is not hell in most of the world... i've heard stories from friends about china, cambodia and vietnam too... really... the media distorts everything to make it seem like it's murdertown everywhere actually, from the stats, murdertown central is actually mexico but i'm pretty sure that being a muslim in israel is rough, and being born into that situation is confusing and horrifying pretty sure there's plenty of jew kids who grow up wondering what the fuck is going on too
I've thought out my position and made up my own mind based on research of history and philosophy. Where I live has nothing to do with that. Feel free to challenge my arguments with your non-chauvanistic, non-fanatic, non-ignorant counter arguments that must be better since I haven't met the arbitrary standard of having lived in a country you approve of. I can only imagine how enlightened I'll be after seeing this preview.
Where you have lived in the world explains your perspective, doesn't. Ean mine is better or worse. Go talk to people who were exchange students and people who loved in other countries, idgaf about your research of history and philosophy. Those people in those countries you've studied are real people, just like you and I. I met a dude from Afghanistan in Denmark who hated me when we first met. And hour or two later the two of us ended up hugging and smoking a joint together. That's all we're saying is that your lack of experience with other people from other cultures puts your perspective in a purely theoretical one based on "research" as you said yourself which is missing a huge part of the human experience. I met kids in my English class abroad who were moved around from country to country alone when they were under age 16 just to escape warlords and collapsing govts. I don't think you can fully grasp the Consequences of the bullshit govts do until you have had a friend who's been through shit like that or seen how people are just people no matter where they're from.