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...
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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