re: #683 Baier

It was a mistake bringing it up, or a mistake believing that Israel was created out of European guilt?

It was a mistake to believe that it was created out of European guilt.

It was “not” a mistake to bring it up for a given definition of the word “mistake” in that I ended up learning something very important weighed against the fact that it was upon reflection an extremely insulting, insensitive and foolish question, and it was which is an equation I leave to the philosophers, though I personally believe that it’s better to open your mouth and be thought an idiot and come away with some wisdom from the experience than to simply be a foolish person thought wise for not saying anything.