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This is a thing... but it is certainly not commonplace.

The evidence for which, to me, sure suggests that there is a casual relationship between physical and mental events. I think it's a bit funny to call this a causal relationship. Pe…

The reason ICJ and ICC should be careful about giving decisions they cannot enforce is because over time it can undermine their credibility. Eventually you end up with these intern…

Regardless of agreement with the ICJ or not, the quasi-statehood of Palestine complicates how the ICJ can target Hamas, much less non-governmental actors like PIJ. To my knowledge,…

This still is not quite grappling with the fundamental issue imo Realpolitik, in the sense Morgenthau and Kissinger understood it, absolutely takes into account management of publi…

I think this here is what Hilary Clinton was talking about recently... she got panned in the media for it, but I'm pretty sure she was right (and I'm by no means a fan).

Not sure if this is what OP was saying, but evidence of orders to directly target civilians would be an open and shut case. The starvation charge could at least in theory fail (e.g…

The 'political repercussions' case is pretty flimsy [0]. Bigger picture - this disagreement seems fundamentally rooted in conflicting political philosophies, as alluded to above. M…

And Israel's GDP is ~500billion, of which ~25b is spent on defense. So, that 3.8b would be a dent, but not insurmountable. Economic measures could be a different story, but pulling…

What gives you that impression? Commentary I've seen suggests highly likely for Sinwar et al., but 50/50 on Netanyahu and Gallant.

At that point the court would effectively lose it's legitimacy, as it would be unable to enforce/execute those warrants. Not saying that that is a) good or b) isn't where we are he…

Thanks for calling me out! I am aware of the other atrocities. And on further reflection, I'd even agree some of these constitute genocide. But you raised precisely the point I wan…

I am fully aware of the definition of genocide. There have been three in modern times: the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and the Rwandan genocide. Go look at a map of the airst…

Please explain to me, explicitly, how they are committing genocide? You can make an argument for ethnic cleansing where the facts would warrant a discussion. But please, give me th…

Or they could be referring to the opposite - the unquestioning adherence to all things Science, as long as those things fall within the progressive orthodoxy that has a stranglehol…

Can you define sentience in this context?

Sure, if depositors said "ok we'll let the bank ride this out." But that's not what happened.

I think the difference is that when we communicate those ideas, in scientific/academic literature at least, we reference the source of those original ideas, which permits verificat…

I'm an MIT student and received the letter as an email. This was the URL linked in the email for the 'online version'. I had the URL updated to the Office of the President's page l…

This is the first post I've seen that states the definition of a CI correctly. Another note: 'confidence interval' typically refers to the frequentist meaning, whereas 'credibility…

We have the connectome of C. elegans, yes, but we are still pretty far from understanding how it 'works'. The functional connections are still an active area of research, and it is…