True or False?
The British Empire was objectively more evil than National Socialist Germany.
>>2752783
False.
>>2752783
False. Objective morality doesn't exist.
>>2752791
Get a load of this Critical Theory Frankfurt scholar
I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.
The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.
>>2752294
On the offchance this isn't bait and you're not a paedophile, it's because when children are involved the power dynamics in the relationsip become extremely unhealthy to the point where consent is always going to be questionable. Children have very little autonomy, and this makes it easy for adults to get them to do whatever they want. The most obvious example is a parent essentially deciding if they want to raise a child themselves or send it to the orphanage. Not going to let me stick my weewee in your pooper, little Timmy? Then I hope you like the taste of porridge.
Another point is children aren't smart enough to make good decisions, not until they've fully mentally matured, and when they have fully mentally matured they tend to be past the age of consent anyway. An eight year old doesn't understand the implications of what you want from them. No, they don't. They just don't.
Then there's intercourse between a child and someone who's had an extremely prominent position in their life, such as a parent, guardian, or teacher. These people are responsible for steering the child's mental state throughout their life, and if you don't think that that could make things a bit fucked up then I don't know what to tell you.
All these things together basically means that children can't be in a position where they can consent, in the same way as an adult can't consent whilst on drugs. That means it's rape, and rape is, you will agree, mentally harmful.
>but 17/16/15/14/13 year olds are mature-
Yeah, and that's why in many countries children of those ages are above the age of consent. Different countries think children will have become grown at different ages. In many cases they also then attach a few years on the end to make doubly sure.
>>2752363
What's your opinion on Rind et al.?
If children can't consent and rape is always harmful how do you explain children experimenting with each other? Voluntary sexual behavior obviously exists in children.
>>2752394
It's essentially the same as two very drunk people sleeping with one another on the consent front. As for harmful... I have no idea what effect if any that behaviour has on the child in the long term, but just because the kids are doing it doesn't mean it's good for them. I have a fear of burning because I once scalded my entire right arm horribly when I was a child- me doing it voluntarily didn't make it not mentally damaging.
Children obviously all develop at different speeds, some faster than others. The AoC is just a point where you can say "all of these people have functioning brains so you can bang them". Individual assessments could I suppose be done, but they'd be complex and ultimately not necessary in any way.
Post histories most incompetent commanders.
He outperformed most of his contemporaries, his predecessor Sir John French cracked under the pressure of the same position, the French went through something like 5 commanders during the war.
>>2748779
t. David Lloyd George
Once this new Panther is mass produced the Soviets will be finished in no time
>>2748019
Could anything stop them?
>>2748019
Why not just make a bunch of anti-tank guns instead, mein fuhrer?
Did they produce a single panzer that wasnt absolute hell to maintain and didnt break down every other week? Panzer II? Leopard?
How valid is this piece?
https://wakeup-world.com/2013/12/16/dna-evidence-debunks-the-out-of-africa-theory-of-human-evolution/
>>2746444
>wakeup-world
It's not.
>https://wakeup-world.com
fuck off
>>2746444
>a fucking blog
ITT: Lewd fashion throughout history.
>>2745326
>>2745327
>>2745329
What's your occupation and do you enjoy doing?
>>2762251
History teacher.
Learning about history, being /lit/, vidya and anime.
>>2762251
HR manager. I'm losing faith in humanity.
>>2762269
What level of education?
>no communist state has ever been succes-
>>2760563
>China
>Communism
>b-but if it's successful then that means it isn't real
Capitalists BTFO
>>2760563
>Socialism with """"""""""Chinese characteristics""""""""""
Eric Hoeffer commented in The True Believe leaders of mass movements are usually people of creative fields with little creative power. The prime example was Hitler.
Why is that so?
People of creative fields are the ones with free time to be the leader of ideology.
>>2760485
and they socialise enough with people belonging to various socio-economic groups. Also you have to be creative to come up with a new movement and self promotion is a good skill to have.
>>2760474
What creative field was Hitler part of?
Can someone please tell me who's being knighted in this photo, the photo is from the 100 years war during the battle of crecy.
>>2760197
>photo
>>2760211
Sorry sir, painting.
how are we supposed to colonize other planets if we can´t properly colonize this shit
>>2759937
>perfectly friendly atmosphere
>lotsa fresh water
>can arrive back in civilization in a week at most, 24 hr. turnaround in ideal conditions
Good question anon, gets to the kernel of the matter. bump
It is easier to fly to the moon than land into Antarctica.
>>2759955
There are flights to Antarctica every year, we've flown to the moon like, 8 times? In human history? And you have to build a disposable craft each time? No.
Leave Russia to me.
>>2759895
BRUSILOV'D
>guys hear me out: we should take our best divisions from the East and send them an offensive into Italy instead of keeping them in the East and just letting the Italians charge at our already-present machine guns like they did in the last sixty battles of that fucking river
>that sounds stupid, Conrad.
>WELL FUCK YOU I'M DOING IT ANYWAY
Was it autism?
>tfw Conrad and Cadorna were never severely punished for their ineptitud
Let's say in a Conventional war scenario in the year 1981 during the Cold War, the US/NATO and USSR/Pac went to war, could NATO have been able to go on the offensive and could the Pac have actually pushed NATO back?
USSR collapses five days into the war.
>>2759801
well memed
>>2759801
this, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary would all flip to NATO or just stop fighting all together. Neither would want to fight for the USSR or communism. The 3 countries populations felt oppressed and viewed the Russians as occupiers, not liberators.
iirc there was a purge in the early 80s in both Hungary and Romania because there were a large number of enlisted men and NCO's who belonged to underground liberation movements
>be me
>think WW1 is a morally neutral war, with no clear good guys or bad guys
>Finally start to actually read about WW1
>Find out about the Rape of Belgium
>Hundreds, if not thousands of Belgian civilians were executed by the German army while passing through into France
>Same thing happened in Serbia
>Read about the murder of Edith Cavell
>Read about the Zimmerman Telegram
>Read about unrestricted U-boat warfare
>Read about the Lusitania
Why do people think that Versailles was harsh? They got off pretty easy TBQH.
>>2759765
I don't think anyone believes Versailles was harsh. The French wanted to go much further but David Lloyd George intervened and softened it down.
Imagine if it was Brest levels harsh. Germs are hypocrites to the max.
They say the winners write history, but they forget about how much damage a butthurt loser can do if nobody else cares enough to stop them from raping the historical record.
This is incidentally the same disease plaguing historiography of the American civil war
One could admit that the end result of the way we perish would ultimately be the same, but what is the source of this fear then? Pain? Suffering?
I'm trying to figure out the origins of fear and why we find things to be scary.
Post sources, psychoanalysis, philosophy.
Discuss.
>>2759690
It differs from person to person and culture to culture. What kind of question is this.
I fear nothing, except the fear itself.