Ka-pi96 said:
Still as incorrect as the first time I refuted it. Did WWII happen despite WWI? Pretty sure they never forgot that, it wasn't even 20 years before them. The guy who started #2 even thought in #1, yet #2 still happened. So no, knowing about history did not stop those wrongs being repeated. Do neo-nazis exist because people forgot about the original nazis? Nope, they exist because of the original nazis. Did every Chinese imperial dynasty fall despite knowing how the previous one fell? I mean, the new one was literally involved in the fall of the old one, so they had to have known how that happened. Yet every single one still fell. Does racism and xenophobia still exist despite people knowing what that has lead to in the past? Yep, it most certainly does! Has what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to nuclear disarmament? Nope. It may mean no other nuclear weapons have been used since, but at the same time the knowledge of how much destruction they can cause has led to more countries wanting them and those with them refusing to dispose of them. So how exactly does knowing history prevent the mistakes of the past being repeated? |
Lets put this in more relative terms. You have a business. You do 2 things right and 3 things wrong. What do you do next time you make a decision. Do you do the 2 things right and remember the wrongs so you do not do them again. You have a lot of text that really means nothing because people have shone to do the same thing wrong multiple times with the same result. Another case in point, when a country goes to war, they do 2 things right and 3 things wrong. When they go to war again what do you think they are going to do. In other words just because someone chooses to continue to do the same mistakes over and over again does not dismiss knowing history. Instead people have a record or HISTORY of how dumb these people were and the smart ones do not repeat the same mistakes because they actually LEARNED something.
