🧵The closing paragraphs of “Israel: To Be, or Not to Be”

Israelis have shown time and again that they can defend themselves against attacks. But they have not embraced a policy fully consistent with their absolute right to exist—and not to be attacked. It is high time they did. A policy consistent with that right is a policy of zero tolerance for aggression against Israelis, immediate elimination of threats when they arise, and refusal to accept unearned guilt for deaths necessitated by the aggressors.

Morality is not subjective, but objective—not created by the human mind, but discovered by it.🧵

Just as truth is discovered via evidence and the principle of non-contradiction, so morality is discovered via the requirements of human life and the principle of non-sacrifice. 1/12 What, in principle, supports and promotes human life given the kind of animal we are? What, in principle, harms or destroys it?

The answers to these questions determine what is objectively good or moral, and what is objectively bad or immoral. 2/12