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>>2722184
>Should STEM majors be required to take Ethics?
They have to

>>2722196
In Britain we don't. It would help if we did. A lot of scientists, especially physicists, would be helped by reading Karl Popper. I know it is not really ethics but it would help with their understanding of the truth.

t PhD chemist.

>>2722184
>Should STEM majors be required to take Ethics?
I'm in CompSci and have had one course on philosophy and one called "studium generale" which is about... actually, I don't even fucking know. Both were shared with a few other science majors, mostly physics and math.

Philosophy was just a teacher blathering about some simple concepts. You wrote a paper in groups, "defended" it, and had an oral exam in group that was just a quick conversation. Then you got something like a 16 to 18 out of 20. Even the professor said he wasn't expecting us to come to all of the lessons.

StuGen is just utter shit. They're basically just a bunch of TedX like talks about miscellaneous bullshit. We had a lecture on the bloke behind the "discovery" of the Big Bang, it was rubbish. I read a book, Progress by Johann Norberg, it was pretty shit too even if I agreed with its message. The entire thing's just completely useless.

So basically my experience is that they are required, but are usually so fringe or so badly taught that no one gives two shits.

American culture is a hellish soup of contradicting cultural currents and this scrambles people's brains

>>2739642
I would be interested to see this argument in a format longer than a sentence.

>>2739623
The material conditions and inherent contradictions of capitalist society cause the alienation of the individual and utterly and completely pervert his conception of the world and sense of accomplishment leading to widespread madness trying to cope with capitalist reality.

The weak must fear the strong.

>>2739536
I disagree, anyone with a moral bone in their body realizes that Jews and communists are not human.

Stalin was shit tho.

>>2739549
Jews are superhuman. I wish I were jewish.
They're Intelligent as fuck.

>>2739199
French revolution, the term was first used there.

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Since the French Revolution

It really is an outdated concept, but it's convenient for political and economic elites to keep us trapped in neat little ideological "boxes" instead of tackling each issue individually or providing real solutions.

>>2739199
I find colorized historical photos quite interesting,

mostly because they make everything seem more lifelike and make it easier to connect with people or time-periods long past.

Their opinion of the general populace has dropped.

>>2738999

It means they saw something they disapprove of again that they will forget about tomorrow. Then they will think the same thing over and over but really committing no serious attention towards it.

>>2738999
what do you think it means you spastic

>>2738719
>Have plenty of time to sit around and screw
Which is pretty much all there is to do.

>Be one with nature
Spooky.

>>don't have to brush teeth
Your breath smells like shit and so does everyone else's.

>be smarter than modern day humans
lolno

>be natural human being inb4 we are tainted by stuff like money and power
memes

You left out
>die at 35 of an easily curable
>see a third of your female family members die during childbirth
>no way of knowing if those savage dickheads from the next valley over are going to rape you to death today

>>2738736
Lots of diseases didn't exist in humans yet retard, the diseases we got are from after the agricultural revolution when we just let animals shit in houses and in the street.

>>2738693
No there was no real incentive to go that way. Also the Pacific would.have been much harder to cross than the Atlantic.

Am I just supposed to know who this grainy photo of a statue respresents

>>2738764
Zheng He

>>2738581
I would be interested in reading this when you're done, or while you're working.

I'm working on a write up about the Nizari Ismailis (as a prototypical example of misunderstanding radical Islam and this misunderstanding as a driver for bad policy) that I hope to get published in the undergrad journal here before I leave for grad school in the fall.

>>2738581
to aid you OP, check out these pastebin bibliographies
ghengis khan
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mongol wars
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animals and the military
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steppe nomadic warfare
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yuan dynasty
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>>2738611
Good Luck, I'd be interested in checking it out if you get published.

CARTHAGO

DELENDA

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*crosses the alps*
*destroys your armies*

>>2738450
I don't but it's a good idea

>>2738450
hmm... guess I will have job after finishing my history major after all

>>2738450
I would if the money was right.

>>2738434
>Maybe a couple of paragraphs would be fine
How about several parentheses?

((()))

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For perspective

panic of 1907, some random businessman cons a big bank into investing into a scheme which fails, rich guy JP Morgan buys them up thus preventing a run on the banks but people don't like the fact the economy depends on a rich guy and would prefer a government central bank do it

1913-1918, due to this and world war 1, the US sets up a kind of central bank, the federal reserve, its purpose is to lend to failed banks in the event of a crisis like 1907 or to generally deal with financing in the event of a world war

1918-1929, roaring 20s, mass produced automobiles, spread of electricity, radio and such boosts economy, with the federal reserve reducing the risk of a run on the banks, banks lend to the middle class like crazy who pour cash into the stock market

1929, the bubble bursts, the federal reserve decides not to lend to failed banks, the stock market drops even further

1930+, the government implements tariffs and other countries do the same causing the economy to grind to a halt

1934+ after hitting absolute rock bottom the economy starts to grow again, rather like 1907 when JP Morgan bought up the failed banks, savvy well timed investors and businesses buy up all the cheap abandoned factories and such, by pure coincidence a certain Franklin Roosevelt starts some schemes intended to get the economy going again but they are inconsequential

that's roughly it, I am sure you can find any specific details based on this

>>2738315
Switzerland?

>>2738315
Democracy is an impossible scenario unless everyone agrees on everything.

Athens was a direct democracy for everyone who had the vote

>>2738131
Only if the Soviet Union collapses from internal strife.

Or if history turns out completely different and the allies don't oppose Germany.

>>2738131
The situations in which this would be possible (i.e., the West doesn't care what Hitler is up to, WW2 as we know it didn't start), are such that the Soviets, who are after all reasonably good at calculating consequences of their actions, are extremely unlikely to attack.

>>2738131
Well the main problem with the German invasion logistics. So if they could just defended they would have a major advantage and could inflict massive casualities with their superior tactics. Maybe the Soviet leadership would then sue for peace like with Finland.

No, stop shitposting like you understand psychology.

>>2738110
>hearing voices
>believing in invisible all powerful beings
>ignoring every fact pointing to the the opposite
sure sounds sane

>>2738085
Pretty sure it would work, afaik religious delusion is an accepted diagnosis in Europe and is treated accordingly.

>>2738059

Astaru is a modern neopaganism, no of course it doesn't practice human sacrifice because that would be illegal and diametrically opposed to its followers Modern moral system.

If you meant to ask about Germanic paganism as it existed before the coming of Christcuckery, then yes some groups practiced it, but there was no single uniform tradition of belief and it was quite rare and typically only those who volunteered would be sacrificed.

>>2738059
> only those who volunteered would be sacrificed
Proofs?

>>2738107
Norse religion is Asatro in swedish