Agahnim said:actually russia was never communist to begin with, that was just a name given to what became of the country by the fear-mongering western bourgeioise to serve as a counter-point to their own acceptable way of life. So the argument is kind of a moot point...
Kijan said:Communism on paper rocks but in reality it doesn't include one little thing - human greed.
Edit: this is also where I stop, this site is about gaming and not politics, so I'll probably stop talking about this now.
ZankerH said:Kijan said:Communism on paper rocks but in reality it doesn't include one little thing - human greed.
Edit: this is also where I stop, this site is about gaming and not politics, so I'll probably stop talking about this now.
Wrong, greed is nothing but a by-product of greed-based economical systems we're being indoctrinated with. It is an imperative function of the brain, surely - but then again, so is the tendency to reproduce, but that doesn't mean everyone is f****** everyone in the street - as we're social animals, any such hard-wired urges can be eliminated by the use of social standards and self-control. Of course, I'm not saying this is true for every last human, because there will always be deviants and criminals as long as there are laws and social standards.
Lethean said:You do not know everything, you are not right all the time.
Shut the hell up and discuss a game for a change.
ZankerH said:Lethean said:You do not know everything, you are not right all the time.
Nor have I ever claimed the contrary. In fact, if I believed I was always right, I wouldn't even bother debating, since, from my point of view, it would render the act of the exchange of the arguments wholly irrelevant if I know the absolute thruth.
Shut the hell up and discuss a game for a change.
This sentence includes two proposals, which appear to me as if they were mutually exclusive.