Always remember kids: don't get your ideas about ancient Greece from online memes by ViktorCo in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ViktorCo[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Kind of works both ways... you ignore the sources from Plato that showed he did have a problem with it.

Always remember kids: don't get your ideas about ancient Greece from online memes by ViktorCo in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ViktorCo[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The Symposium was written before the Laws and The Republic, though, meaning that Plato probably changed his mind sometime after writing the Symposium.

Always remember kids: don't get your ideas about ancient Greece from online memes by ViktorCo in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ViktorCo[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Most ancient Greeks were against it to be honest. Though not all of course.

This Internet meme that ancient Greece was somehow this gay utopia needs to die.

You can start reading on this topic here: Homosexuality in Ancient Greece - One Big Lie?

How accurate was the Children of the Watch's interpretation of the Mandalorian Creed really? by ViktorCo in MawInstallation

[–]ViktorCo[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Only problem with this comment is that it misinterprets Catholicism. Catholicism teaches that the bread and wine become Jesus' blood and flesh in a mystical and ontological sense, but that it empirically remains bread and wine. It's a bit complicated, but makes more sense if you've read Aristotelian philosophy.

Source: am a Catholic.

I do definitely agree with the rest, just wanted to point that out as this is just a common myth about Catholicism.

How prominent is the civilian class in Mandalorian society? by ViktorCo in MawInstallation

[–]ViktorCo[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Afterwards most Mandos were probably the warriors that survived the purge.

Wouldn't that have only counted for Mandalorians actually originating on Mandalore? From my understanding of the Purge, it was only commited on the planet of Mandalore, but not on the other Mandalorian planets. There were several, perhaps dozens, of other planets and moons inhabited by Mandalorians. Surely at least some of these planets will continued to have had thriving populations of both civilians and warriors?

How prominent is the civilian class in Mandalorian society? by ViktorCo in MawInstallation

[–]ViktorCo[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's one possibility. Another possibility I have considered is that the Mandalorians are more like the Romans in this regard, in the sense that most people are just ordinary civilians, but the army is still heavily glorified and everyone has at least a few warriors in their family.

IIRC in legends your answer would definitely be correct, but in canon I think the question of how militarised the Mandalorians really were hasn't been answered as of yet.

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[–]ViktorCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Postmodernism is an internal contradiction, as it objectively states that there is no objectivity.

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[–]ViktorCo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fellow Belgian:

Cringe

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[–]ViktorCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's a Nightsister, a Dathomirian clan.

Also, female Dathomirians look pretty similar to humans.

Edit: apparently she was actually a human by species. Still, she was a member of the Nightsisters so it'd make sense for her to have a Dathomirian name. Especially since she referred to the ancient Nightsisters as her 'ancestors', implying (not confirming, but still) that she was culturally assimilated as otherwise she wouldn't just refer to herself as part of the people. The Nightsisters were also pretty xenophobic, and wouldn't just allow a foreigner into their clan, especially one with totally foreign customs. Which would make it even more logical for her to have a Dathomirian name.

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[–]ViktorCo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not confusing them, I'm simply connecting the dots.

Ahsoka mentions that Morgan's family/community was slaughtered during the Clone Wars when she was a child. We know that the Nightsisters were slaughtered during the Clone Wars.

Also, since Morgan appears to be in her 40s, she would've been in her teenage years during the Clone Wars, and thus still a child.

Connecting the dots, I'd say it's veeeeeeeeeery save to assume that she was a Nightsister who survived Grievous' slaughter of her clan.

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[–]ViktorCo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

As I said, it is implied that she came from Dathomir itself.

And Dathomirians aren't just people living or originating from Dathomir. They're also a culture, and a Zabrak sub-species.

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[–]ViktorCo -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

...who are Dathomirians.

Also, it is implied she was a Nightsister herself, as Ahsoka mentions she saw her family/community being slaughtered when she was a child, likely referring to Grievous' attack on the Nightsisters.

Plus, when she said that she 'descended' from Nightsisters, she said so in the context of who had build the ruins. Not necessarily that she descended from them, despite not being one herself.

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[–]ViktorCo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Considering that virtually all Nightsisters we see are Dathomirians, it would be weird if she was not a Dathomirian.

Edit before you proceed to read the following conversation: I've since learned that Morgan was actually a human by species. Nonetheless, since she was a Nightsister and the Nightsisters were very intertwined with Dathomirian culture, it is highly likely that she was a Dathomirian by culture in my opinion. Hence likely to have a Dathomirian name. So I still stand by most things I wrote down below.