Do you think crime comes with its own punishment?

[FenriR]

It shows you're smart at a dead language, and at creating ridiculous arguments. People hire people who are smart at useful subjects.

 

[False Joe]

"hm. should I hire the trained electrician or the one that can tell me all the original names of all the parts in their language and provide an argument as to why electricity shouldn't work because it has an infinite amount of space to travel through to reach your house"

 

[Zephyrus]

Electricians go to trade schools. Philosophers and Classicists go to uni.

 

[cookiecutter]

And Philosophy and Latin.

You misunderstood me. What I meant was that the purpose of reading that book was to understand important history, not that history was the only important thing.

I don't mean to disparage the study of latin, but I what's the point if learning it? There doesn't seem to be any practical purpose.

General intelligence, language skills, fun etc. Does everything one learns have to have an immediate practical application?

 

[Zephyrus]

Just remember, philosophy comes from the Greek for "lover of wisdom". If one is happy because he or she studies and discusses philosophy, that's a kind of fulfillment that no paying job can guarantee. That's why most Latin and Philosophy majors go into teaching, so that future generations can achieve the same satisfaction.

 

[Satan is My Stewardess]

Just remember, philosophy comes from the Greek for "lover of wisdom". If one is happy because he or she studies and discusses philosophy, that's a kind of fulfillment that no paying job can guarantee. That's why most Latin and Philosophy majors go into teaching, so that future generations can achieve the same satisfaction.

Well, and because they're utterly unemployable otherwise.

 

[Zephyrus]

As long as people will have interest in such subjects, there will always be those who would earn their keep to teach them.

How boring the world would be if we only learned what was directly practical.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

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[Satan is My Stewardess]

As long as people will have interest in such subjects, there will always be those who would earn their keep to teach them.

How boring the world would be if we only learned what was directly practical.

No one said otherwise, but the point still stands.

 

[Einherjar86]

It shows you're smart at a dead language

Latin is far from dead. People who have a good understanding of Latin typically fare better in modern language studies (vocabulary, definitions, etc.)

 

[Carcassian]

Committing crimes only has effects on the criminal if they possess anything akin to empathy, conscience or greater moral compass. I, as the product of a fairly standard protestant household with respect for (most) law would find it very difficult to commit crimes (for instance, I won't park in no-parking zones etc) because I would feel...well...wrong.

However.

I know some very unpleasant, almost "feral" people that are only dissuaded from their crimes if they feel likely to be caught and thus suffer the (increasingly inconsequential) penalties.

 

[FenriR]

Committing crimes only has effects on the criminal if they possess anything akin to empathy, conscience or greater moral compass. I, as the product of a fairly standard protestant household with respect for (most) law would find it very difficult to commit crimes (for instance, I won't park in no-parking zones etc) because I would feel...well...wrong.

It doesn't take malice to kill a man, only indifference.




Who said that? It's been going through my mind for a week now.

 

[Carcassian]

Who ever said it was a cunt. Killing someone in a hands-on, sense, such as strangling, would be incredibly difficult for most people under most circumstances.

 

[FenriR]

Unless they were indifferent.

Which is the whole point.

I have a feeling it was referring to war somehow, and not crime.
It'll come to me.