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>>1225291
>Would you consider population exchange as ethnic cleansing
>Ethnic Cleansing "the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society."

Yes, population exchange is ethnic cleansing.

>>1225429
It's no doubt infringing on freedom of movement. But if it was handled correctly would the end justify the means?
Resolving border clusterfucks, easing tensions and paving way for reconciliation?

>>1225291
It is ethnic cleaning. For one, there's no way to realistically guarantee that people moving would have the same quality of property after the exchange. If your government dislikes your people enough to displace them actively, it would not exert the required effort for the sake of good faith, would it?

Also, even if on paper the exchange was without fault, you're still asking thousands of people to give up their livelihoods.

And you're not even taking into account the problems of 'rightful land' at this point.

>>1225244
>George Washington
>invented a drug that was first produced in 1855

Is this a stealth Cracked.com thread?

Hella fucking epic !!

>>1225253
dude george washington invented it, the heck are you on about?

>a "soul" or "spirit" that is separate of the body (this includes your brain)
Where can you find serious Cartesian dualists in this day and age? I know that a lot of people like to use them as strawmen but I've literally never encountered anyone who thinks that a soul is an entity that has no connection to your body.
In the traditional sense, a soul is simply a life-force, i.e. the thing ANIMAting your body (no, this is not supposed to be conceived of distinctly from the mind; the 'mind' is just the process whereby you are alive, that is, whereby your body is capable of directing its own movement, or at least believing that it is directing its own movement).
Aristotle, at one point, mentions something about a special kind of the intellect that might be capable of surviving after the body dies. St. Thomas Aquinas took this to mean that this part of the soul is that which is in the presence of God when a person goes to Heaven. Like so many issues, Aquinas is where people start to depart in irreconcilable directions. If he hadn't brought Christianity into the Aristotelian account of the soul, you wouldn't need to be convinced that you have a life-force, or that some process causes or allows your body to move.
Aristotelian functionalism isn't wrong, it's just medically useless.

Thanks for the reply and the input! Apparently some people at my uni do.
So my "soul" is actually what we call brain/mind? We had a lenghty discussion about whether this is true, because I brought up the point, that human beings achieved their rationality through the effects the evolutionary process had on our brain. Therefore rationality is a product of the layout and composition of our brain. To which they replied that the "soul" is the source of rationality.
Also: How does aristotle come to that conclusion?

>>1225484
>Apparently some people at my uni do.
Are you sure?
>brain/mind?
Those words are not interchangable.
>To which they replied that the "soul" is the source of rationality.
The soul is the layout and composition of your body such that it is alive. You're both right, they're just wrong to be dualists. If they're Christians, I can't even think of a form of Christianity that seriously endorses Cartesian dualism.
>How does aristotle come to that conclusion?
The same way he comes to every other conclusion: slowly. I'm not going to explain Aristotelian or Cratesian psychology to you, you should read Aristotle and Descartes yourself and stop posting on 4chan. Otherwise you may as well just accept everything your idiot dualist friends say. You've come here looking for opinions to mimic. I've already given you more than you deserve or should want, if you're serious about learning about the history of philosophy.

I'd love to see an adaptation of the life of Dandolo desu

absolute swagger

And then the Ottomans came and destroyed the Venetian economy.

Well done you stupid fuck

valuable spices and dead gr**ks will come to you only if you post 'thank you most serene doge' in this thread

>>1225126
If he wanted peace maybe he shouldn't have declared all those wars

>>1225126
Nah, he was good guy, it's just poles being butthurt:
>kill 2 billions of germans living in poland a day so they become minority in German Colony of Poland in few years
waaaaaah they killed 2 polish soldiers bad hitler, bad
>destroy warsaw - blame it on germans
>build concentration camps for jews and germans - blame it on germans

literally the worst scum in the world.

>>1225126
>he wanted peace

Invading a bunch of countries is a weird way to show that.

>>1224887

No, because Hitler never frothed at the mouth for the extermination of "colored people". He was a European and a German nationalist, not a filthy American KKK member obsessed with race.

>>1224887
No, it shows the hypocrisy of it though.

>>1224887
It's just realpolitik.

>>1224864

>Why did they fail?

Because by and large, the Whites were composed of the same incompetent boobs that made up the government for the Czar.

>And why didn't we engage in a similar way in the Chinese Civil War to keep another giant nation from falling into the hands of communism?

If by "We" you mean various western powers, we did. It wasn't enough, like in China.

>>1224864
Reds were backed by God.

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>>1224864
God is on the communist side.

Hence why at this rate Castro is going to live to Methuselah's age.

Modern greeks aren't the same as ancient greeks

>>1224582
There's no more Greeks, only Hellenized Turco-Albanians.

>>1224595
Literally every genetic study done on the topic says no

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>>1224504
people only hate him because he was the first black emperor

>>1224504
>Why does everyone hate him?
His disdain for plebs makes them feel inferior.

>>1224504
I hate him because I look exactly like him.

My buddies bought me a copy of that bust on that account.

>>1224503
>How exactly did segregation start in America
Post Reconstruction
>why were there so many laws passed that kept non white people like this in fear during that period?
Because blacks were poor, spoke funny, and were seen as inferior because of their skin color. Plus when a black man committed a crime, it was a huge deal and would get people very angry and upset.

Were there any other countries that had something like the Segregation laws during that time period? I can't help but feel like America was the only place doing messed stuff like this

>>1224514
>What are Jewish Ghettos
Also Northern Ireland is still essentially segregated.

>>1224278
Popes are literally called pontifex maximus. Bishops are pontifex

>>1224278

I've never seen a pope build a bridge.

>>1224278

Literally, explicitly yes.

Pretty much. But at least some shitty empires collapsed.

No.

How can a war be pointless?

No.
Shit was going to blow up anyway

Well you could argue that people who have large debts, are slaves. So if you accept that, then there are more slaves then ever today, yea.

>>1223970
>debt=slavery

Welcome to /his/ everyone.

>>1223968
It's shifted, you won't see blacks out in fields anymore but you will see them in diamond mines, and women in whorehouses addicted to the drugs their captors force them to take

>>1223223
3rd worst.

>>1223223

Nah.

Reagan led to the repealing of Glass-Stegall, Nixon committed treason to get elected (which made all of his achievements during his presidency amazing because of that alone), and we can't talk about Bush Jr and Obama because of the recency rule.

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>Now a second great prohibition would be good
>Totally different from the last one

Empower Ukrainians and recruit them to be part of the Axis

never happening to begin with

At first it was. Poor execution in later stages with absent critical supply lines and appropriate environmental gear made it languish and ultimately lose inertia.

>How could operation Barbarossa be successful?

"Not being a tertiary front" would have been a good fucking start.