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> This whole thing is disproved by the whole Emo Philips "Die Heretic" joke [0]. If you don't believe pluralism can work, you will divide (usually violently) in
by Jensson 2y ago
> This whole thing is disproved by the whole Emo Philips "Die Heretic" joke [0]. If you don't believe pluralism can work, you will divide (usually violently) into smaller and smaller groups of people--smaller even than families--until everyone either dies or lives by themselves.
This is provenly false, as countries do stabilize when small at around a few million or so and people no longer feel the need to split up more.
Its just dumb to try to argue that there is no optimal country size, so trying to make it smaller will only lead to single person countries, that is clearly not true in reality.
- camgunz 2y agoIf you were right about this; countries never would've fallen apart when the human population was much smaller than it is today, but it happened a lot, so you're not. Another thing that disproves this is long lived empires. Japan's been around what like, a millennia and a half? Rome was almost around a thousand years, etc. (Are you gonna argue Japan's a monoculture? Definitely not! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_Japan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_Japan)