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Comment by coryrc

1 month ago

Unfortunately that history includes nearly perfecting the use of torture thousands of years ago. https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/torture-achaemenid-pe...

This says very little about the quality of the culture averaged over those thousands of years

Quit cherrypicking for the sake of being an edgelord

  • You don't think history has an effect on the present?

    I didn't even bring up SAVAK or Basij.

    • You haven't shown that the lineage is connected to modern Persian people nor whether it is particularly prominent in Persian culture as a whole

      Torture and power preserving/seeking are emergent and universal, nothing particularly Persian about it

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