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>>2482756
Kind of.
Logic can not be trusted because there is no logic free distinction or observation to be made. Logic is relative to itself and can not be measured against something else, it has no point of reference by which it can be known. It taken entirely on a leap of faith.
>inb4 fedoras denigrate faith
The discovery of Axioms was a highest point in human evolution, Bertrand Russel was an unironic cuckold.

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>>2482762
This.

>>2482756
>>2482762
When did Kant say this?

r/history

r/AskHistorians

/his/.

It's like /his/ and we know what we're talking about.

>>2482267
They were too busy cosplaying as Rome to acknowledge it actually ended.

Stop with these stupid repetitive threads. This is such an exhausted subject.

>>2482302
No, all the rome falling threads are about what contemporary historians wrote

I want to know what historians wrote about it back then to get a full picture and not be blinded by what contemporaries are saying. I place more value in what a historian in 500 and 1000AD wrote about Rome than some jew in 2005 writing that Rome fell because it wasn't feminist enough

A buffer state between Poland and Russia helps keep the peace.

>>2482139
this desu, although its more of a buffer state for NATO in general than just Poland

Because Byelorussian is a language

Every language with a significant population of speakers deserves a state.

>implying Japan wasn't btfoing the US in most battles before the Jews invented the nuclear bomb

>>2482054
They hoped they could sufficiently reduce the US capability and will to oppose them in the Pacific that they could have time to create a new status quo, where the US would accept the territorial gains they made for their "East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere."

>>2482054

Yes

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor with the aim of knocking out the Pacific fleet long enough to take Hawaii and establish a ring of defensive, fortified islands that could give it the air and naval supremacy necessary to minimize the comparative advantages the USA enjoyed which you have just mentioned

and they could have done it too, up until Midway, at which point eventual victory was guaranteed, and it still took four years to beat them after that

Because it looks good.

Because video games are art.

>>2481966
Are you autistic. Genuine question, not rhetorical.

i mean if you go back in history far enough right then you have homo sapiens encountering neanderthals and it would probably get pretty creepy depending on the situation ya feel me

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>>2481671

I just got reminded of that shitty author and his neanderthal theory he keeps pushing for.

>>2481746
really makes you think

>>2481580
The black plague

>What eventually happened to that/those societies?
Population normalizes at a lower level and then starts increasing again as due to population shortages, the people that are left become more wealthy. Afterwards population increases.
I'm personally not aware of any population that, left to their own accord, simply bred themselves out of existence by being too frigid.

Does it matter? The automation crisis will wipe out 90% of all jobs over the next two decades, Japan will be just fine without migration of third world barbarians.

>>2481580
roman empire

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>>2481210

SORT

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>>2481276
YOURSELF

>>2481210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ4ALQAPZjI

>>2480770
>picture of cholos
>talks about cripwalking
>in New York

youre not american are you

A bunch of ghetto ignoramuses psyched over materialist culture. The story of every gang problem.

http://www.chicagogangs.org/index.php?pr=Chicago_Gangs
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/ganglandexpress/index.html

There are lots of footage from the 80's and 90's on youtube channels like DieNoRecords and Eazy-E Ruthless Records.

Rome was infested with various forms of niggotry.

Longer spears, tighter formations and the ability to recruit and maintain a proper standing army due to Phillip successfully seizing silver mines in Thrace (IIRC?) that had been under Athenian suzerainty. That and cavalry of course, which had been traditionally somewhat overlooked in Greek warfare.

>>2480609
Inferiority complex

>>2480609

It was primarily having a wholly professional standing force, which trained in combined arms tactics.

The long spears were nice, but ultimately not the main reason for success. Things like forming up your phalanxes into seperate squares which were trained to maneuver independently, or teaching your spearmen and cavalry how to work together instead of letting them each do their own thing and hoping for the best, or actually having a corps of engineers, were far more important.

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>>2480551
Here's some of my argument:

I don't see the purpose of ethics being "maximise the good throughout the world". I.e. I'm not a utilitarian.

I'm a psychological egoist - I believe everybody does what they do out of selfishness. Yes, even a soldier who jumps on a grenade to save his troop (he has internalised a sense of honour, and honour is what he's chasing). It doesn't make sense for any organism, or human, to not act in their own interest. People are only ever selfless when they have selfish reasons to do so.

So when I ask the question "is objectivism the best moral philosophy", what I mean is, is it the best moral philosophy for oneself?

I would argue that ANY moral philosophy that one chooses to adopt is done for one's own interests. Obviously this is a logical corollary of psychological egoism.

People have become Christian over the years because they sought moral guidance, moral certainty, and redemption. And a sense of community.

But in the modern world, everything is very individualistic. Religious communities don't really hold much social power. The real power these days is derived from MONEY. And yes, communalism in business can help you earn money, for sure (that is, forming a company rather than being a sole trader).

But anyway, I think the most logical thing to do in this life is to gain as much as one can for oneself. And that's what objectivism highlights.

So do you think it's the best moral philosophy for the modern world? Personally, I think it might be.

If objectivism leads to the most advanced and powerful version of humanity with the greatest potential to expand, project, and protect human life for maximum survival, then yes. What other goal could outweigh the importance of promoting the advancement of the survivability and capability of the next generation? If we all shared everything and limited ourselves in the name of social justice and had perfectly distributed resources and educations and justice, but we still lived huts and got wiped out by simple diseases, not that is not a better civilization for human future. I can respect the wisdom of ancient peoples and indigenous people who want to preserve the earth and live in peace, but we have already eaten from the tree of knowledge, there is no way to go back.

Conflict, competition, fear and struggle are what advance our species to new heights of knowledge and power. It's up to the individual to promote his place in this world, not society to level off everyone to the lowest common denominator and then protect the statis quo. Individuals comprise societies.

The stronger the individuals power and capabilities, the stronger the component society will become.

>>2480551
Rand was fucking retarded and her ideas have no basis in reality.

>>2480411
I don't know how to tell you this, but the United States of America is a fairly young nation. It saddens me you had to get this information from a Taiwanese porcelain doll conference.

>>2480419
found the burguer

>>2480411

European here. Edison didn't steal his lightbulb. He wasn't the first person to invent a lightbulb but he was one of the first to invent one that you could actually manufacture and sell.

>>2479553
Ah so you're the shit poster who spams six different topics a day on essentially the same topic and then counter with "not an argument", I'm so happy to know it's just one person

>>2479557
not an argument. contribute to the thread or leave

>>2479559
Contribute to the thread and leave.......