Lindsay Ellis’s Game of Thrones video?
Lindsay Ellis’s Game of Thrones video?
If I can’t truly know how I’d behave, then this discussion is pointless.
I claim that you don’t know how you’d truly behave, and that people are generally decent and wouldn’t harm others if there were no consequences
Just because The Boys is gory and pessimistic doesn’t mean it’s realistic
It’s for their own good 😉
TurboTax plus Republicans wanting to make paying taxes as difficult as possible so people will vote to cut taxes
In his book, he charts the course of human history and tries to predict where it will end up. He comes to the conclusion that a violent revolution will soon come to pass as the workers overthrow their bosses and start sharing resources.
“Soon come to pass” was 150 years ago, the Revolution hasn’t happened. Marxist scholars since then have been recreating the letters between early Christians asking why He hadn’t returned yet as promised and pushing the date of the Second Coming back.
In my opinion, Marx wrote his conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion.
It’s possible to think both “these people deserve to have their fingernails removed” and “a just society cannot inflict cruel punishment”