• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    People have armed themselves throughout history, even if just to protect themselves from non-human predators.

    As far as not seeing the original reply, I don’t know enough about how it all works. I just know I like it here better than the r-place.

    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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      22 minutes ago

      People have armed themselves throughout history, even if just to protect themselves from non-human predators.

      It doesn’t folow from this that we should give right-wing imperial governments a trillion euro from social programs to go fight Arabs and Africans.

      You’ve got to analyse each situation. You can’t say, “There has been inequality throughout history, therefore we should cut taxes for the rich”. You can’t say, “There has been weapons throughout history, therefore we should cut social spending to give the UK a new aircraft carrier”