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We have a long history of celebrating violence by designing weapons that look really fucking cool while killing each other. How are you today?

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[–] Democracywizard 5 points 1 year ago

It's not that we celebrate violence. Rather, those who used violence often got higher in the social hierarchy than those who didn't. And they could afford to have a ceremonial weapons, being that high