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Is the fact that under 18-year-old's are not allowed to vote justifiable within the philosophy of democracy? I think not.
Why don't you vote on it?
>Is the fact that under 10-year-old's are not allowed to vote justifiable within the philosophy of democracy? I think not.
>>1240219
If the majority voted for women not being allowed to vote, would this be allowed within the philosophy of democracy?
>be Catholic
>Burn someone to death for reading the Bible
>>1239471
>Be Protestant.
>Sola Scriptura
>Remove books from the bible.
>Be Protestant
>Burn half your town for potentially being witches
>>1239471
Excellent point OP.
This is one of many reasons why Catholics are going to burn in Hell.
What was this story supposed to mean /his/
As God confused the speech of men, and scattered them throughout the earth, does this mean that human unity is bad
or was it just a one off thing, God scattered mankind just so they couldn't build the tower, and thus the separation should be overcome
>>1238705
It's about pride.
Its about bronze age desert tribe trying to understand world around it
>>1238705
Not much of a story really. Only a couple of lines if I'm not mistaken.
I'm pretty sure it was just an attempt to explain why there are so many languages and new people keep showing up no matter how far people look.
Top 5 worst events in European history?
In my opinion:
1. Fall of the Roman Empire
2. Premature death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC
3. French Revolution
4. Napoleon losing at Waterloo
5. France and Britain declaring war on Nazi Germany
Honorable mention:
Black death, Spanish Flu, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Not quite European, but still dreadful for Europe:
Bolshevik Revolution, Burning of the library at Alexandria
How about you guys?
Everything relating to China after 1800.
Nigga black death and Spanish flu probably killed more people proportionally than WWII. "Honorable mention" my ass.
Is there a man more romanticized than Napoleon?
Jesus
>>1236705
Kim Jong Il.
>>1236708
Jesus is God.
How come commies wear berets, fascists wear epaulets, and libertarians wear bowties?
Because lolbertarians are fags, Nazis enjoy a show of strength to hide their flaccid cuck cocks, and Commies just get a lot of hot pussy and berets makes women wet.
>>1236302
which one are you
Berets were the *wink wink* of the French Resistance against the Nazis, which commies were very involved in.
Fascists don't wear epaulets so much, they wore modernist uniforms.
Libertarians wear bowties because Rothbard did in order to make his rather revolting views on race, sex and children seem more friendly.
Who was the best nazi? I pick Hermann Göring because he was a badass ex-fighter pilot who got pussy and had swag.
They were all equally losers
>>1235433
>fucked over the sixth army
He's garbage
>>1235433
herring
So, who is (was) it?
>>1234873
there's only ever been Rome and those influenced by her tb h
>>1234873
Poland
Moscow
What are the best arguments against Antinatalism?
I've pretty much bought into it, but I would prefer to hold a more positive view of human life.
Why should conscious life perpetuate itself if suffering caused by consciousness will never be eradicated?
How can a parent morally have a child without being able to guarantee a net-positive life for it?
Why is humanity trying to 'progress'? What end-point are we trying to reach if even post-scarcity societies will still face conflicts and sadness?
>>1234140
Suffering is not caused by consciousness. Suffering is caused by the wrong kind of consciousness which is cultivated by society for its own sake. In order to truly overcome suffering without devaluing life itself one must learn to appreciate his own suffering as not something to be escaped but rather to be embraced and endured.
>>1234140
The best argument is to just go on living and reproducing and let the annoying, depressive, Schopenhauer cucks with weak psychologies whine.
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored....
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Educate me on the Aztecs /his/.
They had the wheel and built huge civilizations. Why did they collapse? Was it just the human sacrifice thing, or something else?
They only had the wheel on toys, it wasn't useful in any practical capacity compared to beats of burden.
They collapsed because they were dicks ti their vassals, who sided with the Spanish.
>people come over looking for delicious gold and delicious slaves
>these people have firearms
>these people have smallpox
>these people have horses and plate armor
>everyone in the region hates you because of the whole "demanding sacrificial victims as tribute" thing
>>1222427
This. But also flu.
Azteks would have probably eventually killed the initial waves of conquistadores, had it not been for flu going loose on their cities.
Teach me about nudity, /his/.
Was it ever acceptable?
Where does the moralfaggotry about it come from?
>>1236424
>waifu
You are a cuckold.
>>1236438
You're only a cuckold if it's a fetish.
There's literally nothing wrong with adultery.
Societal norms
Why does Belgium exist?
>>1236256
eternal Anglo
They're frenchfaggots who are having an eternal existential crisis on whether or not they're also dutchfaggots or germanfaggots
Can't we just split that meme country and share it between the dutch and french?
How did the Chinese perceive Europeans and Middle Easterners?
>>1235029
Persian/Kushan/etc = trade area/rich kingdoms of the west
Romans = Great empire of the west
India = Religious but powerful kingdom of the southwest
(cardinal direction) Barbarians.
>>1235040
This, they had some idea of Rome and they liked them.
Who was worst, and who changed things for the better.
>At least he built highways
Reasoning is appreciated.
>>1234900
Stalin industrialized a really shitty country and turned it into the #2 world power
Hitler apparently had a pretty decent run 1933-1939 although he left his country in tatters
Mao didnt do anything good post 1949
>>1234949
Mao never did anything good, you might as well put a yellow dog up with the other two dictators. He needs his own JUST image collage with other fuck ups
Stalin is the best: won the fucking war.
Has philosophy REALLY come up with new ideas?
Reading work after work I think it's just intellectual circle-jerking stating the obvious, telling things most people would have thought on their own anyways. Camus "The absurdity of life", Epicurus "just don't be in pain lol", Sartre "aspire things that feel meaningful to you".
Don't get me wrong: having someone put these thoughts into writing is a good thing. But do philosopher's actually PRODUCE new thoughts?
Or do I just think this way because, well, these philosopher's...
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>>1232981
>stating the obvious, telling things most people would have thought on their own anyways
So is mathematics, you insufferable pleb.
Philosophers do not have any way to reason better than regular people. See the Munchhausen trilemma. Everything follows the axiom deduction method. There are infinitely many unfalsifiable things you can say but only philosophers good enough at marketing themselves become famous.
Nietzche is an edgy Rorschach test for pseudo intellectuals. Plato made the incredible discovery that definitions exist. Aristotle talked shit.
Why, when Hume pointed out the is ought problem, do philosophers insist that they can derive any insight in to ethics? Because they're charlatans.
Listen...
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> But when was the last time a philosopher said something truly revolutionizing
Philoshopie changed the old times a lot, see neo platonism as exemple.
> seems to me art does a better job at creating new thoughts and feelings in people.
Not the goal of philosophie
