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Do animals deserve to have rights, when they still have no duties?
>>448647
What about our rights should only apply to humans? What property about them leaves them human only?
>>448656
Not OP but I think animals should have less rights then humans. obviously they should have someone, torturing animals for fun should be illegal, certain practices in the meat industry should be banned, but giving them rights equal to humans is silly
>>448647
No, the reason humans are where they are today is because we've dominated & controlled every other species on the planet. Humans are worth more than animals because we control them; if we give them rights we admit we are equal to them, which we are not.
How important do you believe that drugs were in the course of history?
Some people claim that the reason Europeans have been more aggressive is due to the fact of drinking alcohol.
Others said, that one more reason that Europe entered the Renaissance, was because coffee started to be imported, which is a stimulant, and people stopped drinking alcohol, which is a depressant.
What do you think about drugs shaping history, /his/? What do you think that will come up next? Do you think that the reason weed gets legalized is to make people calmer and less likely to revolt?
>>447397
Nietzsche said alcohol and Christianity were the two greatest vices of Europe.
> Europe entered the Renaissance,
> and people stopped drinking alcohol
Weren't a lot of them drinking mead, because it was safer/cleaner. So basically beer all day.
>>447397
>How important do you believe that drugs were in the course of history?
Extremely.
OP here, also on what drugs do you think each religion was created on?
I recently saw a documentary about the roots of hinduism, and the man there said, that there were scripts, about a drug(probably something like mushroom tea) that was made and then drug, making you hallucinate, seeing visions about Gods.
This, at first, was only taken by samans, for only spiritual reasons, but then people started abusing it, and then, anything about it was lost, so that people would stop taking it for recreational reasons.
Christianity obviously is based on alcohol, especially wine,...
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How did it devolve from a prosperous world power to a rotting carcass?
Didn't understand economy.
>be rich in gold
>WE NEED MORE GOLD!
>mine so much gold it causes inflation and becomes worthless, making you poor
>>447033
>14th largest economy in the world
>A rotting carcass
I think you may have fallen for the maymays.
>>447046
When was it #14, during Franco's time? That was the last time it wasn't a rotting carcass.
ITT: rare propaganda World War II
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not WWII but WWI but still pretty neat...
supposedly it claims that not all is lost if you get maimed since you will get prosthetic limbs to keep on living (probably bullshit; specially since we're talking about hungria)
>>446446
>cybernetic slavs
We, the “have-nots...”
46 million Britains control over 40 million square kilometers of land — stolen by brute force in every part of the world! That is more than a quarter of all the inhabitable space on earth!
86 million Germans on the other hand must earn their daily bread from 600,000 square kilometers, and should even have to ask the London plutocratic clique for permission to do that!
We, the German “have-nots” fight for our food — and what about the British exploiter caste? — They fight for dividends at the cost of the blood of the peoples — but for the last time !!!
Where did the Song Dynasty fuck up? Was it inevitable that the northern Steppe peoples would come and fuck their shit up at some point?
>>445655
Think of it this way.
There are civilized countries, and there are nomadic countries. Civilized countries are obviously focused on building prosperous cities and having an actual economy and shit. Nomadic countries, or peoples rather, who live in tents and don't know how to farm or write, have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by nigging out and invading their much more prosperous but much more peace-loving neighbors who are just minding their own business. Steppe nomads are like intercity...
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>>445655
The music stopped
>>445714
They always have western silk trade cities and then good ol' Persia. China has suffered the nomads, but it's experiences fades before the suffering of poor Persia.
Why is it not allowed to like Žižek and Chomsky at the same time?
Why are they considered to be opposites of each other?
I've watched videos of them on YouTube a lot, but I haven't read anything so I don't quite get why you apparently have to choose between them as I like much of what both of them have to say.
Which Žižek and/or Chomsky book would you recommend to get first?
Also general Žižek and Chomsky thread
You don't have to choose between them, some faggots edited some clips of them saying dismissive, inflated, or false things about each other and it became a meme that they're absolute opposites whose differences can't be reconciled. Ultimately Chomsky is an analytic and Zizek is a continental philosopher. There isn't much between them other than the divide.
>>445573
I would reccomend that you fucking kill yourself, you piece of hippy trash.
The Scots language is actually a variation of Old English, which makes the language Germanic in nature. Parts of Scotland also spoke Scottish Gaelic which is a Celtic language, but they are isolated hill people. So what are the Scottish people? GERMANIC or CELTIC ?
>>444853
Celtic. Scots exists because Anglo-Saxons ruled over southern Scotland for a while, thus the existing Scottish population likewise adopted the language. As such things tend to go, it eventually drifted enough to be considered its own language.
Just a simple case of acculturation. The British have a pretty extensive history of that sort of thing.
>>444853
Celts whos speak a Germanic influenced language due to prolonged exposure and interbreeding with the Germanics living to the south. The Irish were ethnically very similar but linguistically retained their Celtic roots because they were separated by the Irish Sea
>>444853
Not even remotely true. Scottish Gaelic is most closely related to q-Celtic languages such as Irish and Manx. It's not even in the same sub family. English is a North Germanic language.
Are Babylon, Assyria, Carthage part of "western civilization"?
Are Russia and Poland? Were the Ottomans and Persia?
Where do we draw the "western" line, when did we start drawing it, what reasons do we have to draw it, and has the "western culture" won and taken over all of the world by now, leaving "eastern" values in the past?
I'd like to hear a historical or philosophical approach, and would like to avoid a /pol/ approach. Thank you.
No.
Western basically means Europe and North America
>>441996
So Brazil isnt western? South Africa and Australia arent western?
Doesnt seem sensible to me.
which was more important to the rise of Europe?
>>441487
Germany
France because they started WW2
Why is Jesus dying a big deal? For one, he didn't really die, Jesus is alive. Second, he already knew life after death exists so he wasn't sacrificing anything just returning to his former state.
How could He know life after death exists when He hadn't died yet?
>>439741
Because He is God and knows everything?
Either that or he is just a fallible human and his teachings shouldn't be followed
the creator of the universe chooses to become corporeal and suffer with and for his children. it's like how soldiers will have infinitely more respect for the general that charges with them than the one comfy in his tent scribbling battle plans in his tent while the real fight's going on
i don't really believe it but it's an extremely beautiful and evocative idea
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Anglo here.
Tell me about Civil code. Is it just a special rulebook? Do precedents even matter, or do judges look to the book every time? Do governments constantly update their laws? What happens if there's a verdict that is inconsistent with previous verdicts?
General law thread, based common law welcome.
>>428458
>Is it just a special rulebook?
Yes.
>Do precedents even matter, or do judges look to the book every time?
Precedent doesnt matter, it's the attorney who argue their case based to their interpretation of book. Judges rule based on what presented before them and their own understanding of the book.
>Do governments constantly update their laws?
Depends on their need.
>>428458
It's simple. If the law is misinterpreted, then Napoleon will rise from his tomb and strike down the offender with a great mass of artillery.
>>428458
1 ) yeah , but there is other codes ,68 of them
2 ) they somewhat do, sometimes rules a created from precedents
3 ) if it's needed yes
According to Catholic doctrine:
>all men inherit ancestral sin from Adam;
>God descended upon Earth as the Son in order to free mankind from this sin, was crucified, died etc.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
>Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants human nature wounded by their own first sin and hence deprived of original holiness and justice; this deprivation is called "original sin".
The theory of evolution states that we (as...
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Who says that Adam Eve had to be the only humans around at the time?
>>392275
Pope Pius
It's a fucking allegorical creation story. The inevitability of sin, original sin, occurs because of our free will, our humanity.
Was he a power hungry dictator? Was he a righteous man spreading communist values across Europe?
What is your opinion on Stalin?
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>>451602
Waged a war of justice against Hitler and the archaic ideas of fascism.
I think Trotsky should get more of the fame, however.
>>451611
>Fascism
>Archaic
Okay peasant.
>be imperialistic
>deny imperialistic nature in presentation
>man of the people style bullshit
>served as the model for the worst dictatorships in Asia
>murders millions
>can't even look cool or live by an ideology that isn't naive while doing it
>territories riddled with dissent and failure after his death
pretty shitty desu
What is the point of people organizing themselves into structures more complex than a tribe?
Civilization, I guess. Do YOU want to live in a world that has a 25% murder rate? Or are you perhaps asking why people did it in the first place?
>>451549
The people who didn't got killed by the people who did.
There is no point.
Getting shit done. You can't think of a single thing that would be get done faster by using more people than a tribe?
What should Tito have done differently to keep Yugoslavia together?
>>451014
Not die
Train a succesor, not sell the yugoslavian market too forgein capitalists.
>>451021
tbqh
