On maps and navigation
2023-10-19 13:00 Flat-earthers use to claim the world looks like this...
What you can in fact see in the sky
2023-10-17 11:09 Flat-earthers show great ignorance about the movements of celestial bodies.  It is bad enough to believe that perspective could explain the sun rising and setting.
How far can you see?
2023-10-11 10:36 Flat-earthers like to argue that one can see things further away than one would on a round Earth.  The problem is usually faulty calculations of what one would be able to see.
Mathematics works!
2023-10-05 12:31 Many people certainly hate math.  I think this is due to misdirected attempts to increase the number of mathematicians.  They tried to teach advanced concepts to everyone from an early age.
“That is what They want you to believe”
2023-10-03 13:25 This is a common excuse from people believing in all-encompassing conspiracies.  That the most common explanation for something would come from the conspirators.
Why the race concept is not meaningful
2023-09-27 11:01 I perceive talk about “human races” as if they are believed to have sharp borders.  Within the “races” people are supposed to be genetically homogenous.
Capitalism does not have to be that bad
2023-09-26 12:50 It is worth noting that no other Western country had chattel slavery as late as the US.  The European ones either never had large scale chattel slavery or had it replaced by serfdom centuries earlier.
Experiences they could not have made
2023-09-20 10:43 It has been pointed out that different countries have different cultural heritages.  This can explain Christian Fundamentalists condemning the inevitable.
Progress is possible
2023-07-14 13:09 The countries I see as Western are mostly found in Europe.
Seeds of progress
2023-07-05 13:05 Apart from its peninsula and island rich coast Europe also has an unusually fractured terrain.  This makes it virtually impossible to politically unify this part of the world.