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Paul Ryan's Total War on Women's Rights

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Killgore Trout8/11/2012 3:59:54 pm PDT

re: #257 jvic

You’re quite welcome. Glad you find it relevant.

When I graduated from high school back in cough cough, I had a soft-focus view of ancient Greece. I read Thucydides as a college freshman, but virtually all of it faded from memory in subsequent decades. However, the passage on partisanship, and the Melian Debate (the strong do what they can, the weak bear what they must) shocked the bejesus out of me so much that I never forgot them.

I’ve been brushing up on my philosophy over the past couple years. I haven’t gone back to the greeks yet in my adult life and the only one that really stuck with me from high school was The Cave Allegory, which also has some loose tie ins with the discussion of partisanship and world view.