Oh gosh, an occupied country wants independence, this has never happened before.

Yup, people are underestimating the threat of these kinds of conspiracies thinking only dumb people fall for them. I'm sure if challenged, that engineer would think you're too dumb to understand his new views.

No, that's something you learn at school. It's not something you're born with.

Being forced to risk your life for something you don't believe in won't create a feeling of unity.

Israeli civilians being killed is a war crime though? Double standards much?

The government of China are not good people... is that controversial?

I have a friend who used to volunteer in Palestine. One of his jobs dealt with evictions. Basically if you're a person anywhere in the world and you can go through historical documents and find a suggestion that your ancestors may have owned property in a certain place you can present that to Israel and they give the current residents, many who have owned their houses for multiple generations, some of whom have records of their relatives buying the land from the first family, 24 hours to leave.

There are troops of volunteers who will come down with a moving van and help you load your entire life in because there's nothing else you can do.

It's criminal.

Absolutely. Top sprinters have a whole different kind of muscle structure to the average person. I can train 24/7 for the rest of my life and I'm never going to develop a whole different muscle structure.

As a short person I could never be the best basketballer, and with shorter legs I'll never be a hurdler.

Sport is always a good percentage "what you're born with".

Nobody is saying you can't. Read the article.

It's somewhat misleading to call one side of a war a 'terrorist organisation' though. That's not really how war works.

Not being able to spend summer in the Algarve and being brutally murdered is totally the same thing.

And he's doing that by genociding the entire population... that's totally morally normal

It's clear that she did something awful, but she doesn't deserve a greater punishment than other people convicted of the same crime, I think that's the point being made here.