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You will find most STEM people do 'liberal arts/humanities studies' because it reduces our workload and gets us high distinctions. I got trouble because they s

You will find most STEM people do 'liberal arts/humanities studies' because it reduces our workload and gets us high distinctions. I got trouble because they saw me 'hacking' the system a bit working them in.

dmitriid 6y ago
Yeah, and you are the prime example of that: fully ignorant of history.
- aaron695 6y ago
  Absolute that! Because I did study the liberal arts (Like I say, most STEM and engineers do for the easy credit points) I understand 'history' is all made up! More than 300 years ago, everyone was a slave (by today's definition). Most people were literally 10-20% or more dumber because the disruption to nutrients in early childhood damages peoples brains. Scratches and the flu kill people. Rape and murder were part of life. People have twice as many female ancestors. That's a lot of murdered men/boys and rape going on. None of this is mentioned in the liberal arts. Because those books don't sell well. Only people who want a better future and not make up silly sayings like 'history repeats' care. Now we have abstract thoughts, helped by our better brains. Which allows legal systems and land property rights. And also IP rights. I'm not making the case IP rights are the end of the story. But if OP wants to argue against IP rights they need to pick a better hand waving argument.
  - dmitriid 6y ago
    > More than 300 years ago, everyone was a slave (by today's definition). That's why you don't judge those people by modern-day standards > Scratches and the flu kill people. Ah yes. Unlike in the perfect modern times since the invention of IP which miraculously changed everything, and medicine became modern only when IP was invented. > Slaves. Murder. Murder. Rape. Death. Yup. Your education was clearly wasted on you. We can go back to your original statement: "I think medicine and movies/art and IP were invented around the same time. Last 100 may be 200 years years." I wonder when you think the Renaissance was. Or the Golden Age of Islam. Or Greek culture. I wouldn't even expect you to know anything about non-Western cultures (I sure as hell don't, but I have an idea at least). Ah yes. They didn't exist because IP wasn't invented yet. It was all murder, rape and slavery.

dmitriid 6y ago

Yeah, and you are the prime example of that: fully ignorant of history.

aaron695 6y ago
Absolute that! Because I did study the liberal arts (Like I say, most STEM and engineers do for the easy credit points) I understand 'history' is all made up! More than 300 years ago, everyone was a slave (by today's definition). Most people were literally 10-20% or more dumber because the disruption to nutrients in early childhood damages peoples brains. Scratches and the flu kill people. Rape and murder were part of life. People have twice as many female ancestors. That's a lot of murdered men/boys and rape going on. None of this is mentioned in the liberal arts. Because those books don't sell well. Only people who want a better future and not make up silly sayings like 'history repeats' care. Now we have abstract thoughts, helped by our better brains. Which allows legal systems and land property rights. And also IP rights. I'm not making the case IP rights are the end of the story. But if OP wants to argue against IP rights they need to pick a better hand waving argument.
- dmitriid 6y ago
  > More than 300 years ago, everyone was a slave (by today's definition). That's why you don't judge those people by modern-day standards > Scratches and the flu kill people. Ah yes. Unlike in the perfect modern times since the invention of IP which miraculously changed everything, and medicine became modern only when IP was invented. > Slaves. Murder. Murder. Rape. Death. Yup. Your education was clearly wasted on you. We can go back to your original statement: "I think medicine and movies/art and IP were invented around the same time. Last 100 may be 200 years years." I wonder when you think the Renaissance was. Or the Golden Age of Islam. Or Greek culture. I wouldn't even expect you to know anything about non-Western cultures (I sure as hell don't, but I have an idea at least). Ah yes. They didn't exist because IP wasn't invented yet. It was all murder, rape and slavery.