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    Quote Originally Posted by mfckr View Post
    Posing a normative question about whether humans 'should' do these things or not, is the wrong question.
    Do you have any argument why we should not explore normative rules, or are we just not supposed to do it because your word is law?


    Quote Originally Posted by mfckr View Post
    I don't know that there's historically been a single instance of rapid 'total civilizational collapse'—e.g. the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire might appear that way in hindsight, but was actually a process spanning over multiple centuries..
    Really, you can never think of a civilization falling apart. Not Macedonian Greece after Alexander. Not the Medieval Muslim Caliphates falling to fundamentalism. Not the Mongol bloodline diluting in China. Not the Soviet Union after the perestroika.


    I'm not saying necessarily that the modern equivalent of the Visigoths is going to knock down the gates and burn New York City to the ground. I'm not saying it's going to be instantaneous. It might not even happen in my lifetime. But civilizations do decline in importance, and that's what I'm saying I'm expecting to happen with America.

    When this happens, information is lost in the process. The Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground. Who knows what treasures the barbarians destroyed in Rome. Some of the scientific advancements of the Muslim Caliphates were surely destroyed by following wave of fundamentalism. It happens.
    Last edited by Whoobie77; 09-12-2014 at 09:33 PM.

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