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@Girzo I haven't read through Brave New World , but you are indeed right, it was pretty trippy to listen to its audio version.

Short stories are also powerful too. The Bible contains plenty of short stories, which I interpret as how bad emotions would lead to bad outcomes. Cain and Abel, jealousy is bad. I don't remember them clearly, but there are a bunch of lessons in the short stories from the Bible and other books for that matter.

@DocWatts Where would you place George Orwell's work on the spiral?

There’s some profound quotes prophet Muhammad pbuh said, like the one below. I think Leo mentioned this quote in a different form, in one of his video. He talked about small and large Jihad. I go from embracing to deconstructing/debunking Islam. I can’t find an appropriate balance/integration acceptance, and resistance in relation to my Islamic background.

The Armenian genocide, French recognition of their part in the Rwanda genocide, the Tulsa massacre commemoration, Justin Trudeau apologizes on Canada's behalf over the newly found mass graves. Add the list if you know more atrocities that have been recognized this past year. It's maybe the youtube algorithm but this year have many past crimes resurfaced where world leaders apologize for crimes committed in past. I have always got a strange feeling when people talk about how their identity or ethnic background is responsible for accomplishments in civilazation. I feel that if one wants to take credit for one ethnic background one should include both the good and the bad, maybe because I identify with an ethnic background with few accomplishments for society. Is this activity of acknowledging past crimes positive or constructive? Should more nations or ethnic backgrounds atone and acknowledge their "past crimes", or is this exercise silly and we should focus more on the present? Or is all of this just political? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKU_Lpe32xU

One of my favorite anecdotes from Leo's videos is about Socrates when he was put on trial for corrupting the youth. Most of my role models died for a cause they believed in. However, do I not exclude people who lose a lot for what they believe in, meaning that they don't have to pay the ultimate price. Now to my question, how conscious is the act of martyrdom. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thích_Quảng_Đức

Is a person who knows beforehand that he or she would be canceled to be considered a light martyr?

Why can’t it be both? Which variable is the more significant ? The government acknowledged their difficulties with integration after 2015 immigration wave when 150k people came.

Does it matter which tool people use for killing each other? Sweden has similar homicide states as many other western and northern European countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate . @Epikur . The stats are old, but I think they're relevant While people in other European countries might use knives to kill people, is the preferred murder weapon for criminals here in Sweden illegal firearms. Yes, immigration is a factor in the violence perpetrated on the streets recently. But the overall problem is multifacited, I think.

@Striving for more football gave me community, self-discipline and brotherhood, so I know what you are talking about. Many dysfunctional boys as I used to be, gets a good outlet for energy. And being around friends in a ordered setting is also good for youths. Athletes can harness their talent with conscious action, and change culture, if there good enough. Muhammad Ali is an example but in a different sport. If Cristiano Ronaldo boycotts Qatar as he did with an advertisement gig he got from Saudi on the ground of human rights would would that really be an statement. Both FIFA and Qatar would work harder to ensure basic workers right. https://www.dailysabah.com/sports/football/ronaldo-rejects-big-money-offer-to-promote-saudi-tourism-report

I can't remember which french person said something like; this is the price we pay for sugar" referring to the Carribien sugar plantation. The point of the quote was to make people conscious of the human cost of our pleasure. Segway to the bigger picture- we are one year away from the planet's biggest party, the football world cup. I'm also having Leo's latest video in mind about how brands exploit us, and how to break a company or an organization's hypnotic zombie spell of us. I'm a footyphile, a lover of the beautiful game, Football "soccer". Lately have the responsible organization been exploiting people's love for the game in various ways.FIFA, the organization that is responsible for many the logistical matters involving football has been giving the tournament to some questionable countries, such as Russia, Brazil, and South Africa. And a year from now is it going to be played in Qatar, where 6500 people have died since they've won the honour to host this world fest. Let me quote that nameless french person again " this is the price we pay for football". No thanks, I rather watch boule or ice-skating than legitimizing modern-day slavery.

@Natasha Where the Proof? Hearing seems a bit vague.

I agree with @Endangered-EGO, most of us "need" smartphones or clothes, so we are willing to accept that some factories have nets under their facilities to "save" people from suicides. But, we don't need FIFA or football, we might love it, and that makes the boycott more powerful. So, entertainment is basically the easiest way for consumers to protest.

I understand that point of view. I think that sports brings humanity together though, as with art, music, dance and spirituality.

Bob Marley.

@Preety_India Most successful interventions are those where there is local support for them. When the US fought off the nazis where most Europeans happy to host and cooperate with them. In the case of the middle eastern insurgency from terrorism do I get a feeling that most countries there don't want an American-led intervention. Only attend to other's affairs if you're invited, I guess.

@Vrubel I agree with you. And I would like to add that might makes right in that region. The strongest entity, whoever it is, goes ahead and dominates every other group. So it is never as easy as good guys vs bad guys, or perpetrators and victims.

I know that I'm technically guilty of whataboutism by posing this question, but nonetheless, I have to ask it. From a humanitarian perspective, why don't the crises in Yemen and Syria rile up similar media attention or public outrage? Am doing the same thing right-wing people do when police brutality is being discussed by bringing up black-on-black violence to shift focus. My intention is not to shift focus, but I genuinely wonder why Isreal and Palestine's conflict is so polarising in the public discourse? The argument is usually humanitarian, which is completely valid, but we know that the region is in the middle of "more urgent" humanitarian crises in Yemen for example. So, what is it, humanitarian or something else?

Ethiopia is among the poorest nation in the world, she is battling a possible ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region. There is a lot of ethnic tension domestically. Internationally is Ethiopia now in a conflict with downstream Sudan and Egypt about filling a dam. Honestly, I'm not aware of all the details, both Sudan and Egypt are pretty hostile to The Grand Renaissance Dam, with great reason. Egypt relies on the Nile for 90% of its freshwater supplies from the Nile, something that might be affected by GERD. The blue Nile supports 80 percent of the water before it joins into one stream. The dam will make Ethiopia a sufficient energy producer, and an energy exporter. Energy desperately needed to raise its country out of poverty. The dam is a blessing for Ethiopia and potentially detrimental for Sudan and Egypt. Furthermore, Ethiopia has borrowed a lot of money from China to fund a couple of infrastructural projects. Money Ethiopia hopes to get back through supplying its country with much-needed energy. Does anyone have any good spiral suggestions for averting the likelihood of our first large water war?

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@lina I just think we're coming at this from a different perspective, if the GERD significantly decreases the flow of water and potentially starve millions of Egyptians would the global community act quickly, that would be a genocidal act, which no one in the global community would allow. And if that would happen anyways does the river already have two safety valves, the Sudanese dam, and the Aswan Dam. Both Sudan and Egypt have capabilities to release water from those dams and adding increase the flow. To be clear, I'm not an expert on dams. What I'm will try to do is to make geopolitical speculations; that no country likes to have its fate in the hand of others. Egypt's insecurities should be a consideration for releasing millions of Ethiopians from deep poverty. Egypt did the same in the 60's, Aswan displaced 60.000 Nubians because the project was deemed essential, not out of malice, but merely pragmatic.

@lina look like Egypt is taking steps to ensure its water supply. https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.al-monitor.com/originals/2020/11/egypt-build-world-largest-desalination-plant-gerd-nile.html%3famp

@lina of course they need electricity, it is one of the poorest nations on earth? They provide electricity to a fraction of their population. Egypt on the other hand has one of the largest economies in Africa, third-largest if I remember correctly? Sudan is actually not that hostile to the GERD, unlike Egypt. Sudan would import cheap electricity and regulate flooding such as they've recently experienced.

@lina Those countries you've mentioned are maybe transitioning to renewables, but they are far from covering their needs with renewables. Sweden is relying heavily on hydros and thus proving my point. A significant chunk of Kenya barely has any electricity. Germany and Scotland are relying mostly on fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Solving the challenge of energy is difficult for any country in the world. I doubt that Ethiopia's agenda with damming is to kill millions of people. Sudan has also dammed The Nile close to Khartoum. All your concerns could be leveled at Sudan as well. Egypt has objected to every aspect of the GERD since its inception. I agree with you that filling it should be discussed. The question below is, however, a good question.