Who was in the wrong?
Rawls got eternally BTFO. His refusal to reason beyond moral means and actually try to establish non-ideological truths are what makes TOJ so easy to critique, explaining its status as the punching bag of the last fifty years of political philosophy. When he introduces thought experiments like the Original Condition, he fails to adequately link such an idea to the moral view he wishes to purport, instead appealing to something as weak as hypothetical self-interest
>>3152402
>A thought experiment that demonstrates the golden rule in political philosophy isn't a moral guideline
>>3152408
Except it doesnt
It is true that Ancient Greeks had an average IQ of 120+?
Yes, it is a scientific fact. The same goes for most Chinese prior to the Han Dynasty.
>>3152320
Yes and they all looked like this.
>>3152320
no they stole all their knowledge from kemet
Was Fredrick just trolling during the 7 years' war? It seem like all he did was challenge habsburg power and showed off his military skills.
>>3152280
All he did was almost completely undo the work of his previous wars, his fathers efforts, and the great electors efforts to turn Brandenburg-Prussia from a shithole into a functioning Great Power.
Seriously, there's a reason why it's called a miracle, as he was just short of complete defeat when it happened
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg
>>3152528
Well, I guess it worked out in the end though
>>3152602
Yeah it did. While the war demonstrated his full extent of his (incredibly impressive) military acumen, it's existence revealed a complete failure of Prussian diplomacy.
Which raises the question, why do non-Habsburg Germans suck so much at diplomacy (excepting Bismark)?
What the FUCK was with medieval physiology?
sacking rome was a mistake
medieval art is awesome, fuck you
you're looking in the wrong place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fAgls5bGXs
Let's share quotes from soldiers writing about war, either from their letters home, memoirs, journals, etc. Any nationality and any /his/ appropriate conflict. Include context (names, what war, etc) if you can.
>>3152246
You first.
Kenneth W. Bagby, in a letter home to his parents, Vietnam War.
>I met a boy on the ship coming over to Vietnam. He was a good guy from the State of Missouri. He was my friend. We lived in the same tent together, went into An Khe together, and spent most of our free time together. I got to know this boy well, and he was my best friend. His name was Dan Davis. On Monday Morning, the 15th of November, he died in my arms of two bullet wounds to the chest. He said, "Ken, I can't breathe." There was nothing I could do.
From the same letter
>The many men that died, I will never forget. The odor of blood and decayed bodies, I will never forget. I am all right. I will never be the same though, never, never, never. If I have to go into battle again, if I am not killed, I will come out insane. I cannot see and go through it again. I know I can't. The friends I lost and the many bodies I carried back to the helicopters to be lifted out, I will never forget.
John O'Halloran, letter home to his father, Vietnam War.
>Saturday was the worst day of all. I was one of the gusy picked to go out on patrol... That was the most sickening day of my life. We were walking down a road, and coming from the opposite direction was a woman and a little baby in her arms. The Sergeant told us to watch out for a trap, because the VC use women all the time. We were maybe fifteen feet from her and she started crying like a baby. I didn't know what was going on, and the next thing I know the Sergeant shot the hell out of the both of them. She had a grenade under the baby's blanket which was noticeable, but she was afraid to sacrifice her kid to kill us, so she started crying. The Sergeant said it's a dirty war, but it's kill or be killed.
> 1985
> 2-6% of Americans saw drugs as the "number one problem in America"
> 1989
> That number is now 64%
> 1981-1986
> Reagan introduces mandatory minimums and asset forfeiture to combat what he thought was a huge threat to the nation
> 1986
> Crack epidemic begins
What the fuck /his/? Is it really so hard to believe that Reagan had laid the groundwork of drug policies because he knew that crack cocaine was going to be introduced? Or is it just a (((((coincidence)))))
>>3152243
Big influx of cocaine into the country following Castro emptying his prisons and Carter taking them all in. Watch Scarface.
>>3152294
damn liberals at it again amirite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking
>>3152299
wtf I hate ronald reagan now
Why is /his/ so obsessed with x ethnicity not inventing something when only the top 1% of any society actually created laws, advanced science, and lead the population?
Good point, and the answer is tribalism, in-group mentality and related social instincts.
It could be argued that they share the same culture and genes as the society that spawned the geniuses so presumably are more likely to spawn more or share something in common. Though culture has changed substantially and genetics is complicated.
>>3152211
You lump 99% of humanity into the same common category. Even you know that's not the case.
"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
-Einstein
Is it true that Japs in their history of civil wars, didn't really wage total war with the exception of nobunaga?
Tactics like burning the enemy clan's crops/ lands, sowing fields with salt, or brutalizing peasants like other cultures?
>>3152204
Bump.
Kyoto got burnt down a lot during the era
>>3152204
Medieval Feudalism tends to be one lord dicking over another lord rather than total war.
But thats not all Japanese history.
How did France come to support a literal monarch so soon after the revolution? Isn't this exactly what they fought to stop in the first place?
Napoleon was based though
>>3152185
They could make an exception for him.
>>3152185
Better a king chosen by the people than a king chosen by nobody.
Learn me on the history of homosexuality /his/. I know that in Greek and Roman cultures it wasn't what we envision as homosexuality today at all, but often pederasty or filled with "prison culture" connotations.
But it was still practiced there, and presumably in other pagan societies as well. So here are my main questions:
1. What factors allowed homosexual acts to fall out of style in Rome? Besides Christianity, but speaking of...
2. How come while the rest of the Mediterranean seemed fine with homosexual acts Jews and later Christians took such a harsh stance against it?
3. Was homosexual activity like that in Rome and Greece common in other pagan societies like Scandinavia? Germania?
4. How did these ancient people deal with anal fissures, shitdick, and other "complications" arising from anal sex? What did they use for lube? Why was homosexual sex so prominent despite these factors being drawbacks?
>>3152157
Occurs in nature.
Humans overthink things and attribute cultural values to natural acts
>>3152157
It was never widely accepted, don't believe jewish propaganda
>>3152234
Thanks for not answering my questions.
>Humans overthink things and attribute cultural values to natural acts
Okay cool but I still want to know WHY certain groups attributed good and bad moral values to the act.
>>3152260
So you're saying that if I google "gay Greek pottery" I'm not gonna get dozens of results similar to the one in the OP? For something that was never widely accepted there sure is a lot of art depicting it.
Did colonization ever benefit anyone?
made some people like cecil rhodes exceedingly wealthy
>>3152135
Yeah the colonizers duh
>>3152135
The colonizers
Was Cesare Borgia nearly as batshit crazy as he's described/portrayed in some shows/media.
Was it all propaganda?
https://youtu.be/LIIx6GefgfQ
>>3152094
Who says he was crazy?
He was doing the done thing at the time
>>3152113
In one scene, he threatens another dude with rabid dogs. Then at another point slams a dude's eye into blunt end of of a dagger planted into a table out of anger and possible revenge.
In the American showtime version, he is a bit more white washed until the end of the last season but then he sets a guy on fire for not doing what he says while they were talking.
The ass Creed game has him just as edge desu.
Because le corrupt papists. Anglos are shit.
Read Machiavelli, Cesare was the man.
how do you do, fellow minds?
I have a body too you know.
>>3151994
Pay day is tomorrow. Truly man was put on this earth to suffer
You guys arn't real, only I am real.
So which are you?
>>3151833
Le religion
>>3151840
How the fuck is that even possible without them chimping out
Tell Me Something About The Balkans /his/
Saudi Arabia and Iran financed Bosnia
not creating Intermarium was a mistake
Croats are the true Aryans