History is written by empires to aggrandize themselves. Why would you trust it to tell you the importance of empire? Why would you trust assertions about the importance of human behavior before the invention of the contemporary sociological understanding at all?
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
I mean, sure, we can get into the whole discussion of "what is truth," but I'm comfortable in what I've studied compared to what has been unearthed compared to what other accounts of the time said, and none of it is dependent on a single account.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
yes. asserting an immutable human nature that is available to be observed by any non-dumb person is gonna run hard into "what is truth", lol
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
"Truth" is that atoms will spin, matter will decay, and entropy will eventually win. Anything else is what we bring to the table. That being said, what we bring to the table has turned out to be pretty predictable (again, with exceptions).
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
you changed the subject to particle physics rather than address the problem of there being no basis for the empirical existence of immutable human nature
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
The empirical evidence is that we're currently engaged in the same stupid, bullshit behavior our ancestors engaged in. Dunno what more you want me to say.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
that is something commonly asserted by people who want to make naturalistic appeals justifying their behavior, up to and including The Actual Nazis.
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black @ChrisWarcraft
there's no difference between your justifications for the existence of immutable, observable human nature that happens to conform to your biases and Social Darwinism except that your personal biases are less monstrous by far I think. I hope, given that they're p close to mine
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
I think this might be a key misunderstanding. I'm not saying that human nature is immutable. I'm saying that it is historically *consistent*, absent the will to recognize and change that behavior.
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