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3y ago
> But this is obviously not true. It is obviously true. The five permanent security council members are US, China, Russia, UK and France. US, China and Russia are obviously gigantic. UK is gigantic via its ties to Canada, Australia, NZ.
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> That’s odd. Did you think land mass was somehow really important? Yes. That and population. Generally, the larger and more populous countries tend to be the most powerful and influential. > Did you ever check out how small Britain o
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3y ago
> I find it more strange that people wear outside shoes inside. Not making excuses but when you have to be in and out your house many times a day, it gets quite annoying having to take your shoes off only to put it back on a few minutes
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> Not going to mention the Odyssey would have been the more appropriate reference? The Iliad isn't really that long. The odyssey is modeled after the iliad. Both poems are divided into 24 books and both the trojan war and the voyag
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3y ago
An ethics class doesn't make you ethical, no more than a criminology class makes you a criminal. Ethics isn't about making you ethical ( though it may ), it's about studying the history and principles of ethics. It's abo
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'Oxford Dictionaries popularly defined it as "relating to and denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."' https:/&#x
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> In a way, he's sort of a precursor to modern day social media influencers. He's a precursor to Churchill who wrote "history will be kind to me because I intend to write it". But then again, alexander the great was a
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> The people that killed him got to write history so they made him into a bad guy. The people who killed him lost. Caesar Augustus, caesar's adopted son, ultimately prevailed. The history we get from that era is mostly the one that