Are human rights a real thing or are they a meme created to lessen the power of the government? My studies always seem to point to the latter
Just as real as laws. They exist if you can enforce them.
>My studies
>frogposter
>human rights
>a meme
>>412826
I had no other pictures saved except porn, sorry
Let's pretend that you live in 1861, and you invent the AR15. You deliver 1 million of them to the South with all the ammo and spare parts needed to fight the coming Civil War. What happens?
>one fucking million
The south wins period. Hope you dont mind global slavery bans being lifted after the cold war.
>>412747
>You deliver 1 million of them to the South with all the ammo and spare parts needed to fight the coming Civil War.
Why would I do that?
What are they going to do, use them as clubs?
ITT: We list what we think are the 5 most important inventions/creations in human history
I will start
1. The internet
2. The gun
3. Plastic
4. Electricity
5. Medicine
>>412163
> 4. Electricity
That seems to be the power source of the rest, therefore it is more important than them, bar medicine and the gun. But even their modern selves are utterly dependent upon electricity.
>>412163
1 Agriculture
2 Anal sex
3 Writing
4 Dildos
5 The spear.
>>412163
5. Toilet
4. Sewer
3. Soap
2. Water filtration
1. Gender theory
How can capitalism be a good thing even from a Protestant perspective? Almost every corporation that does good works or gives to charity flaunts it, and according to Luther, people who do that are working for the Satan.
It's justified by Calvinism. There's no free will in Calvinism. If you succeed in business God is rewarding you for being a good person. If you fail it's probably because you sinned and God is punishing you.
>>411896
> How can capitalism be a good thing even from a Protestant perspective?
According to some Calvinists, people who have a place in heaven are successful in life, yet they live modestly. A capitalist society enables your ability to earn as much as possibly before you die, meaning that you're destined to go to heaven.
It isn't really, it's some meme Weber made up.
For the record, proto-capitalism really developed in the Italian (catholic) merchant republics.
Why didn't the US nuke the Soviets between V-J Day and the time the Soviets got the bomb?
Also, thoughts on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Why would you nuke someone that is not your enemy?
Why would you nuke someone that has been your ally in a war that you had just won?
Not an expert but I beleive the technology was not ver advanced. You needed air-superiority to drop a bomb. Something the U.S would have lost quickly. Western europe would also be completly invaded in a matter of weeks. Also the country was war -weary. So betraying a back then ally would have been a bad move. All in all this was poor idea.
>>411651
Because randomly killing millions of people for no reason is somewhat frowned upon?
Post famous historical figures that were gay.
I'll start. From 'The Twelve Caesars' by Suetonius:
>"Caesar first saw military service in Asia. where he went as an aide-de-camp to Marcus Thermus, the Praetorian governor of the province. When Thermus sent Caesar to raise a fleet in Bithynia, he wasted so much time at King Nocomedes' court that a homosexual relationship between them was suspected, and suspicion gave place to scandal when, soon after his return to headquarters, he revisited Bithynia, ostensibly collecting a debt incurred there by one of his freedmen. However, Caesar's reputation improved later in the campaign, when Thermus awarded him the civic crown at the storming of Mytilene."
>>411480
Everyone. Every important person in history was secretly gay.
And black too. Secretly gay and black.
That doesn't make the Queen of Bithynia gay, anon. He had a family.
That isn't proof of anything at all.
Who's is the best naval commander and why Michiel de Ruyter?
>not Yi Sun-sin
>Raid on the Medway
Horatio Nelson
why are the Germans considered the bad guys of ww1?
they didn't start the war and the entente empires weren't any better than the germans
>>411071
Because they disregarded Belgium's neutrality and because they lost.
because it was through their direct actions and aggressive behavior that the war had escalated into a massive conflict
actions such as encouraging austria to proceed with a much desired military action in the balkans
such as invading neutral belgium and committing atrocities there
such as waging a war of aggression
such as attacking france
such as setting their sights on a confrontation with russia already a few years prior and doing the above and below to make it happen
such as submitting russia to an extremely harsh peace treaty
such as isolating france diplomatically and in turn literally causing their own "need" to strike both west and east
>>411071
I'm pretty sure only butthurt Frenchies consider them the bad guys these days.
How would history play out if Muhammad never existed? Would the Roman Empire ever reestablish itself in the west?
It's entirely possible, but that always depends on the emperors. With Egypt and the fertile crescent in their hands, they'd have the funds to expand back into France and Spain eventually.
It'd certainly change things massively in the Balkans and Middle East though. They'd likely remain Christian to this day, and without the Arabs bringing a swift end to them, they'd have the resources to continue to dominate everything south of the Danube. They'd be in better shape to fight the Bulgars and Slavic invaders, perhaps incorporate them into the empire fully, and then we wouldn't have all of the stupid bullshit like Serbia's pan-Slavic movement sparking WWI and not Muslims in Europe.
>>411088
>the balkans
The balkans are and have been mostly christian m80 troughout history.
Otherwise a pretty good post.
>>410962
I have some bad news for you; Turks will still come.
It was internal population pressure that threw them out in waves from the Steppes to begin with.
Maybe this time, as Buddhist, Tengrists, and Nestorian Christians.
Has philosophy ever actually solved anything? It's been asking the same questions since its inception.
Has there ever been a philosophical answer that wasn't later superseded by science?
Who says philosophy should solve anything?
The quietist idea, for one, proposes that philosophy should be primarily taken as remedial and therapeutic.
>>410740
Stuff within it's own field?
Yes. All the time. The one that comes most to mind is that it's wildly accepted that Compatibalists have "won" the discussion on free will.
You can never "solve" something objectivally and trufully with philosophy. It is all speculation and thought games, made from many different perspectives with differing opinions.
Why haven't you read Yang Zhu (aka Yung Chu) aka The Spookbuster of the East?
>Life is full of suffering, and its chief purpose is pleasure. There is no god and no after-life; men are the helpless puppets of the blind natural forces that made them, and that gave them their unchosen ancestry and their inalienable character. The wise man will accept this fate without complaint, but will not be fooled by all the nonsense of Confucius and Mozi about inherent virtue, universal love, and a good name: morality is a deception practised upon the simple by the clever; universal love, and a good name: morality is a deception practised upon the simple by the clever; universal love is the delusion of children, who do not know the universal enmity that forms the law of life; and a good name is a posthumous bauble which the fools who paid so dearly for it cannot enjoy. In life the good suffer like the bad, and the wicked seem to enjoy themselves more keenly than the good
>>410694
Is this man like the Diogenes of Oriental Philosophy?
That probably isn't a good translation
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Is ebonics a legitimate language or just an excuse for bad english?
>>410629
It's a dialect, so an excuse for bad English. Doesn't really matter since American English is shitty English to begin with.
>>410629
You can't even fucking capitalize and you want to talk about "bad english"? Read Guy Deutscher's the Unfolding of Language and never ask this question again. Seriously it's a good book and it answers your question.
>>410634
>min ansíen hwonne
Was the American abandonment of the South Vietnamese government a criminal act?
>>410511
No
>>410511
It was certainly a shitty move, I don't think it was illegal.
Fucking anti-war hippies should've been deported to north vietnam when the war ended.
>>410539
No. American support of south vietnamese government was a criminal act.
My favorite mythological hero is Gilgamesh, since he persevered and pushed himself the fact that the Akkadian afterlife is terrible.
Who's yours?
>>410507
I'm not sure if he counts as a hero but I always liked the trickery of Sisyphus. Even though he may have gone too far by his end he was enjoyable
Atalanta by far. She was just a raging badass who got kicked down way to often and then just pulled herself up by her bootstraps.
>>410507
Jesus
What would you have done to win this battle against the Turks?
Surrender myself to the turk and embrace islam
>>410313
this 2bh fām