• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    6 days ago

    What about whatever they were called before the people that called them that killed the guys that called it whatever it was called before?

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        6 days ago

        Do you think humans coincidentally started writing down history and having wars at the exact same moment? Repeatedly? Consistently? Across the globe?

        Or is it more reasonable to assume that there were wars before recorded history?

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      6 days ago

      Exactly. Not to mention that all names are equally arbitrary (except for onomatopoeia, arguably, but I don’t think that’s relevant here), so none are more “real” (whatever that means) than any other.