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First off, you can calm down, no need to call me full of shit because you don't like my arguments. As to your points. We have written history from thousands of
by lovich 8y ago
First off, you can calm down, no need to call me full of shit because you don't like my arguments.
As to your points. We have written history from thousands of years before the Greeks. The code of Hammurabi predates them significantly. We also have scattered historical records from other ancient cultures and it's not like their government system was a mystery. They had Kings and emperor's, not elected leaders.
Even with the Greeks, how many of the city states had any sort of democratic system and weren't a monarchy or oligopoly? Youre accusing me of cherry picking but all you can point to is a single geographic area in a relatively small span of time and even then, only a few of the population centers had any sort of democracy.
- Quarrelsome 8y agoits still a form of democracy. I'm accusing ALL of us as cherry picking. Human history is cherry picking because we know so little of it because of the perish-ability of everything but the most hardy of tablets. To look at history and make strong assertions about what is or isn't universal values is a disingenuous position. Sociology is a difficult science today in the modern world, let alone applying it to history. I am not cherry picking because my point is that your assertion is too strong for what we know. My position is that "we don't really know".