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satvikpendem 3 days ago

Do you think countries behave differently than what the parent has said? This has been going on forever, since the first clan of humans fought another, any reasoning other than "might makes right" is a post-hoc rationalization not based in history.

gessha 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The theory that humans are evil to one another and that this behavior has been going on since the dawn of time has shaky grounds. David Graeber looks for alternative explanations in his book [1] The Dawn of Everything.

https://davidgraeber.org/books/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-...

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pjc50 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Can we at least distinguish between descriptive and normative?