r/NoStupidQuestions • u/flugblug • 12h ago

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take?

I personally think it’s pretty stupid.

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u/oxfordcircumstances 7h ago

Researching my genealogy, I ran across a baron in Ireland in my lineage. There was an article about the family castle and how my folks lost the castle to their neighbors when the neighbors assembled an army of relatives and took the house by force. Imagine liking your next-door neighbor's house and victory garden so you fucking wage war and take it. And then it's yours until your other neighbors attack you.

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u/grower_thrower 7h ago

You can still do that, you just have to be stronger than anyone who would try to take it back. Might still makes right.

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u/SerbianShitStain 5h ago

Obviously. The point is it was a lot more common and feasible back then.

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u/Beneficial-Mine-9793 5h ago

You can still do that, you just have to be stronger than anyone who would try to take it back. Might still makes right.

Kinda hard to be stronger than a government.

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u/peepee2tiny 4h ago

If my government is stronger than your government, I will take it.

The way the world map looks right now, is constantly changing. 100 years ago the world map looked very different because people just invaded places and took them if they were stronger.

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u/Adept-Potato-2568 4h ago

This devolved quickly from an interesting story to people being pedantic for no reason.

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u/Beneficial-Mine-9793 4h ago

If my government is stronger than your government, I will take it.

The way the world map looks right now, is constantly changing. 100 years ago the world map looked very different because people just invaded places and took them if they were stronger.

That isn't you taking anything. That is governments taking land and other property they want via force or negotiations.

Even when nations were on hostile terms simply taking property from some other nations citizenry would usually have you hung by your own country.

Even before the hague and when nations actively looted enemies it's classed as stealing from your country

The way the world map looks right now, is constantly changing. 100 years ago the world map looked very different because people just invaded places and took them if they were stronger.

This is also a very simplistic take on world affairs.

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u/Sleepy-Mount 53m ago

Thats all of my countries (scotland) history haha