{"id":2458,"date":"2025-03-16T08:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2025-03-16T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T12:29:55","slug":"%d7%a2%d6%b7%d7%99%d6%b4%d7%9f-%d7%aa%d6%b7%d6%bc%d7%97%d6%b7%d7%aa-%d7%a2%d6%b7%d7%99%d6%b4%d7%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2025\/03\/16\/%d7%a2%d6%b7%d7%99%d6%b4%d7%9f-%d7%aa%d6%b7%d6%bc%d7%97%d6%b7%d7%aa-%d7%a2%d6%b7%d7%99%d6%b4%d7%9f\/","title":{"rendered":"\u05e2\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05df \u05ea\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7\u05b7\u05ea \u05e2\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05df"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><em>ANON: \u201cIs co-habitation and occupation of land an equal sin to that of murdering another human?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking and losing life and taking and losing \u201cland\u201d are all done by, and done to, individual people. You can\u2019t quantify or equate \u201csin\u201d without counting individual doers and individual done-to\u2019s, individual victims and individual perpetrators, on \u201cboth\u201d sides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking \u201cland\u201d includes taking everything else that individual lives are lived for (including family and freedom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the most telling detail of this tragedy &#8212; which has individual victims on \u201cboth\u201d sides \u2013 is that there aren\u2019t just two sides:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individual victim-counts and the individual perpetrator-counts, for both \u201cland\u201d-taking\/losing and life-taking\/losing, start long before 1949 and beyond \u201cPalestine\u201d (which I take to be a geographical region, not a further metaphysical or moral entity).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201ctakings\u201d &nbsp;are not just local, in either place or time, although individuals remain individuals and local (when it comes to counting victims and perpetrators).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this could have been said of the taking of both life and \u201cland\u201d throughout the entire history of humanity (and inhumanity), planet-wide. It even has a biological basis (and it goes beyond the boundaries of species):&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life necessarily entails conflicts of interest \u2013 vital (i.e., life-or-death) interest. And \u201cland\u201d covers a multitude of vital interest, not just real-estate or geometry: it covers just about everything that life is worth living (or dying or killing) for.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, no, if there were a measure of degree of &nbsp;\u201csinfulness\u201d, it could not be expressed as life vs. land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is, of course, more to say; much more. But it\u2019s best to expose simplistic metrics before starting the counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"217\" class=\"wp-image-2459\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2025\/03\/HammurabiCode.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANON: \u201cIs co-habitation and occupation of land an equal sin to that of murdering another human?\u201d Taking and losing life and taking and losing \u201cland\u201d are all done by, and done to, individual people. You can\u2019t quantify or equate \u201csin\u201d without counting individual doers and individual done-to\u2019s, individual victims and individual perpetrators, on \u201cboth\u201d sides.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2025\/03\/16\/%d7%a2%d6%b7%d7%99%d6%b4%d7%9f-%d7%aa%d6%b7%d6%bc%d7%97%d6%b7%d7%aa-%d7%a2%d6%b7%d7%99%d6%b4%d7%9f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u05e2\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05df \u05ea\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7\u05b7\u05ea \u05e2\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05df&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","tag-ethics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}