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Rawls got eternally BTFO. His refusal to reason beyond moral means and actually try to establish non-ideological truths are what makes TOJ so easy to critique, explaining its status as the punching bag of the last fifty years of political philosophy. When he introduces thought experiments like the Original Condition, he fails to adequately link such an idea to the moral view he wishes to purport, instead appealing to something as weak as hypothetical self-interest

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>>3152402
>A thought experiment that demonstrates the golden rule in political philosophy isn't a moral guideline

>>3152408
Except it doesnt

Yes, it is a scientific fact. The same goes for most Chinese prior to the Han Dynasty.

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>>3152320
Yes and they all looked like this.

>>3152320
no they stole all their knowledge from kemet

>>3152280
All he did was almost completely undo the work of his previous wars, his fathers efforts, and the great electors efforts to turn Brandenburg-Prussia from a shithole into a functioning Great Power.

Seriously, there's a reason why it's called a miracle, as he was just short of complete defeat when it happened
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg

>>3152528
Well, I guess it worked out in the end though

>>3152602
Yeah it did. While the war demonstrated his full extent of his (incredibly impressive) military acumen, it's existence revealed a complete failure of Prussian diplomacy.
Which raises the question, why do non-Habsburg Germans suck so much at diplomacy (excepting Bismark)?

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sacking rome was a mistake

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medieval art is awesome, fuck you

you're looking in the wrong place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fAgls5bGXs

>>3152246
You first.

Kenneth W. Bagby, in a letter home to his parents, Vietnam War.

>I met a boy on the ship coming over to Vietnam. He was a good guy from the State of Missouri. He was my friend. We lived in the same tent together, went into An Khe together, and spent most of our free time together. I got to know this boy well, and he was my best friend. His name was Dan Davis. On Monday Morning, the 15th of November, he died in my arms of two bullet wounds to the chest. He said, "Ken, I can't breathe." There was nothing I could do.

From the same letter

>The many men that died, I will never forget. The odor of blood and decayed bodies, I will never forget. I am all right. I will never be the same though, never, never, never. If I have to go into battle again, if I am not killed, I will come out insane. I cannot see and go through it again. I know I can't. The friends I lost and the many bodies I carried back to the helicopters to be lifted out, I will never forget.

John O'Halloran, letter home to his father, Vietnam War.

>Saturday was the worst day of all. I was one of the gusy picked to go out on patrol... That was the most sickening day of my life. We were walking down a road, and coming from the opposite direction was a woman and a little baby in her arms. The Sergeant told us to watch out for a trap, because the VC use women all the time. We were maybe fifteen feet from her and she started crying like a baby. I didn't know what was going on, and the next thing I know the Sergeant shot the hell out of the both of them. She had a grenade under the baby's blanket which was noticeable, but she was afraid to sacrifice her kid to kill us, so she started crying. The Sergeant said it's a dirty war, but it's kill or be killed.

>>3152243
Big influx of cocaine into the country following Castro emptying his prisons and Carter taking them all in. Watch Scarface.

>>3152294

damn liberals at it again amirite?

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

>>3152299
wtf I hate ronald reagan now

Good point, and the answer is tribalism, in-group mentality and related social instincts.

It could be argued that they share the same culture and genes as the society that spawned the geniuses so presumably are more likely to spawn more or share something in common. Though culture has changed substantially and genetics is complicated.

>>3152211
You lump 99% of humanity into the same common category. Even you know that's not the case.

"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."

-Einstein

>>3152204
Bump.

Kyoto got burnt down a lot during the era

>>3152204
Medieval Feudalism tends to be one lord dicking over another lord rather than total war.

But thats not all Japanese history.

Napoleon was based though

>>3152185
They could make an exception for him.

>>3152185
Better a king chosen by the people than a king chosen by nobody.

>>3152157
Occurs in nature.

Humans overthink things and attribute cultural values to natural acts

>>3152157
It was never widely accepted, don't believe jewish propaganda

>>3152234
Thanks for not answering my questions.

>Humans overthink things and attribute cultural values to natural acts

Okay cool but I still want to know WHY certain groups attributed good and bad moral values to the act.

>>3152260
So you're saying that if I google "gay Greek pottery" I'm not gonna get dozens of results similar to the one in the OP? For something that was never widely accepted there sure is a lot of art depicting it.

made some people like cecil rhodes exceedingly wealthy

>>3152135
Yeah the colonizers duh

>>3152135
The colonizers

>>3152094
Who says he was crazy?

He was doing the done thing at the time

>>3152113
In one scene, he threatens another dude with rabid dogs. Then at another point slams a dude's eye into blunt end of of a dagger planted into a table out of anger and possible revenge.
In the American showtime version, he is a bit more white washed until the end of the last season but then he sets a guy on fire for not doing what he says while they were talking.
The ass Creed game has him just as edge desu.

Because le corrupt papists. Anglos are shit.

Read Machiavelli, Cesare was the man.

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I have a body too you know.

>>3151994
Pay day is tomorrow. Truly man was put on this earth to suffer

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You guys arn't real, only I am real.

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>>3151833
Le religion

>>3151840
How the fuck is that even possible without them chimping out

Saudi Arabia and Iran financed Bosnia

not creating Intermarium was a mistake

Croats are the true Aryans