https://d-place.org/parameters/SCCS1650#0/14/150 — 52 of 186 uncivilised peoples in this dataset have no war.
There's probably war without civilisation, but "more civilised means less war" is hard for me to accept.
whether uncivilised people have 'war' is controversial; many people thi k war arose with civilisation
For example, the book Warless Societies and the Origin of War by Kelly argues that you need civilisation to have the sort of organisation and population density for war. A counterargument is that some great apes have been observed warring.
Anti-civ people could respond that a civilisation focused on war is particularly civilised.
What's your favourite dinosaur?
Essentialism is the source of so many pointless debates.
No, they're too kind/gentlemanly.
Scores are stable over time. This can be determined by statistics. It's called test-retest reliability.
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Megan Campbell has broken the world record for the longest throw-in in women's soccer with 37.55 m (123 ft 2 in)
(www.guinnessworldrecords.com)
Israel has admitted that that narrative is misinformation ("bluff")
"The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only a bluff, which was born and developed after the war." Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972
I didn’t post that meme
Ok.
And for what it’s worth, I believe Israel is currently perpetrating a genocide. That doesn’t mean everything they’ve ever done was always 100% evil.
That's besides the point. The meme is lying about who attacked whom in 1967. Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground in a surprise attack. The USA has done evil things, but I'm not gonna lie and say they launched a surprise attack against Japan in WW2. Facts are facts.
I’m against re-writing history
So am I. That's why we can't accept a meme that says the Arab countries jumped Israel with a knife and it then defended itself with superior firepower. Total contradiction of the facts.
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Agreed. Being civilised is an Englishy queen-and-country virtue.