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>>1539067
he might as well have won, if the other generals in his offensive weren't retarded he would have btfo'd austri-hungary, and even though the germans eventually sent reinforcements the austrians were no longer a threat to anyone except the italians maybe

>>1540098
The wind is a goddamn threat to the Italians.

>>1540104
this is very true

''The Past sure is Tense''

>>1539016
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>>1538990
It was a natural response to machine gun fire and artillery. Soldiers couldn't press forwards because they'd get pinned by machine gun placements and then they were made vulnerable to artillery which was a huge part of the war. So they just starting digging holes in the ground and it slowly evolved into trenches, networked trenches, underground bunkers and then fortified underground bunkers networked with rooms and passages etc. They were an extremely effective defensive structure until the invention of tanks which is why they didn't have a role in WW2 and the successful style of warfare changed again.

>>1538990
I'll also add that trenches had been used in previous battles. I think the first person to utilize them significantly was Nader Shah of Persia. He developed a new military doctrine focused on firepower rather than musketmen drilled to fire in sequence. I think the Austrians eventually adopted some of this in their battles against the Ottomans. But the trench warfare was toyed around with before, however it was WW1 where it was utilized the most and became more redundant as tanks took a more significant role in military. We have diaries of German soldiers around Stalingrad talking about tanks running over hundreds of fleeing Germans and then stopping over trenches and just driving over them to squash everyone inside.

>>1539049
Wow, that was a good answer. Open and shut case I guess.

Though why didn't the Germans utilize Mobile warfare after the first tanks were invented?

Is there?

Throughout my education we largely focused on European history. In fact, I don't think we ever touched on anything outside of Europe aside from the USA.

school of resentment
frankfurt school

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WE WUZ ROMA N SHITE

(is this the right board for this thread?)

>>1539247
>>1539247
Yes, I'd say this is the right place. Law = a part of humanities (that happens to pyramid better than most other fields in the humanities). As for OP...

In the US today, yes, A has likely breached a contract. IIRC different US states have different laws regarding the validity of oral contracts, but the scenario youve given in the OP sounds to me like a contract of some sort. B was harmed by A's actions, so in most US courts A wouldnhave to restore B back to wholeness (and maybe a bit more if punitive damages are involved).

I'm not an ethicist/philosopher so I cant tell you much about the rest of your question.

>>1539282
OP here,

Thank you for your contribution, I agree with this and in general I think this is very objectivable.

Can anyone help with some insight on the other parts, (ethics, sociology, phylosophy)?

I.e. is "responsibility" a valid concept in a broad sense, or one should stop at the more objectivable "cause" ?

Once you know that "responsibility" is a thing, can you ignore it? Is it "legit"?
One might ask, by which standards?

If you have multiple answers depending on standards, then, what would be a good standard if discussing a personal situation in contemporary western europe?

The opposing part stated that "even if the majority recognizes that responsibility is a thing, this is arbitrary and meaningless" and used this to support the idea that no one should be allowed to judge anyone that disrespects an agreement causing damage knowingly for reasons like negligence or willful misconduit.

What would a social scientist think of this?

>>1538934
Marxism

Cultural marxism destroyed marxism as part of their marxist plot

>>1538934
Gorbachev destroying his civilization for Pizza Hut

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>>1538920
Yes. They were at highest peak of human civilization

>>1538920
>and it's possible that words we assume were borrowed from germanic languages and incorporated into finnic languages were actually the other way around
How would you explain cognates showing up in other Indo-European languages, some very far away from any Finnic speakers?

Just found this

>Punic, the Semitic language spoken in classical Carthage, is a superstratum of the Germanic languages. According to Vennemann, Carthaginians colonized the North Sea region between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC; this is evidenced by numerous Semitic loan words in the Germanic languages, as well as structural features such as strong verbs, and similarities between Norse religion and Semitic religion. This theory replaces his older theory of an unknown Semitic substrate language he called "Atlantidic" or "Semitidic". The Runic alphabet is derived directly from the Phoenician alphabet used by the Carthaginians, without intervention by the Greek alphabet. The Germanic sound shift is dated to the 6th to 3rd centuries BC, as evidenced by the fact that some presumed Punic loan words participated in it, while others did not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Vennemann

What do linguists think?

>this is what Catholics actually want

>>1538903
If the Spanish were good Christians then why didn't they use their wealth taken from the Americas to fight the Turks instead of building navies to fight the retarded bongs?

>>1539017
What

>>1538443
I am human and I prefer being alive over being dead, as far as I know. Extinction implies I would be dead, ergo I prefer non-extinction over extinction.

>>1538443
>Why is human extinction seen as a bad thing

Because there's this thing called self preservation instinct.

>>1538491
/thread

They were autists

>>1538394
The Eternal Latin strikes again

Because the emperor didn't pay the amount of gold a powerless pretender with no idea what the economical situation of the Byz empire looked like.

>>1538326
Two words: GI benefits.

>>1538326
everybody died from the flu

For Americans? Because it wasn't that important.

By May of 1918, six months before the armistice, over a million men made it to France but only half or so of them had seen any combat. Not lots of combat, any. At all. By the end there were two million.

All in all, it was a short war with minimal casualties. World War 2, on the other hand, was longer and involved 12 million Americans in 1945. That's a long time to be away from home and rationing for the war effort.

GI benefits also helped, as did the expansion of housing in the suburbs.

>>1538058
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Italy, between the 11th and the 14th century, there have been a huge growth of the "Town civilization" (read: citystate-like governments, comuni).
It created a new "middle class" made of bureaucrats, lawyer, merchants, etc...

>>1538557
This! It happend all over Europe

>>1538058

The 1000th year has been seen as the milestone of the "Feudal Revolution".While the term and her significance is still debated, it seems pretty clear that its duing this times when the "feudal Europe" with her small warring lords appear, as opposed to the Caroligian system. "Topolineages" vs "Imperial Nobility. Preromanesque and Romanesque

The XII and XIII Century are the ones in which the sterotypical medieval stuff fully developed, chivalry, trouvadours. Its the time of the Gothic (and still Romanesque) and the Universities. Sometimes know as the Reinassance of the XII (or XIII) centuri(es).
The End of the XIII and the XIV marks the beggining of the Crisis of teh Late Middle Ages.

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wew lad

>>1538263
I said before Islam.

>>1538003
Khosrow I and Shapur I

>>1537984
What if I'm in favor of "have as few or as many children as you want as long as it's not more than you can personally afford, it's nobody else's business"-ism?

>>1537984
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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in purely practical terms a society needs a population base that can replace itself to be self-sustaining.

Evolutionarily, those genetic groups who produce more offspring are more successful in the long run in capturing land and resources and securing their future survival.

Philosophilcally, it is coherent to argue that if our purpose is to replicate our genes, then doing so prolifically is good. Although there are considerations about quality vs quantity too.

you also have to look at who you are directing the pro-natalism at. If you do so for White people, you are advocating the continued genetic survival of the most pro-environmentally minded, most innovative, and most compassionate people in the history of the world, and so ensuring their survival is a huge net positive for existence.

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Tell me, what separates a drunkard from an Irishman?

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>>1537974

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>>1537979
A table