emanreus

Space colonization is a wonderful opportunity to create unique civilizations, each pursuing their own destiny. Where does your sadistic desire to control the future of entire mankind come from?

Ability to choose different paths is far more appealing than suffering under some inescapable dystopian global diktat you have in mind. So yes, we should extend tribal thinking to space. Platitudes like "we are single human race" are as meaningful as saying we are all life.

Trash food and beverage franchises brought us together? I don't think so.

Yep, expect no privacy in any app that requires a phone number. At least in most places. More than 150 governments require a proof of identity to purchase a SIM card.

Yep. The lack of understanding of false positives truly never ceases to amaze.

[email protected] in 7 breaches [email protected] in 14 breaches

Polarizing figure can be a good thing, especially for early adopters and getting a foothold in the market.

> Nations are abstract. They don't weep. They don't bleed. They don't suffer. Neither do Empires. These are metaphors.

I was not referring to a nation as political abstract but as a group of people sharing common descent/history/culture/language, inhabiting a particular territory. They do suffer, bleed and weep.

> One side effect of this has been an end to millennia of multiculturalism, often bloody.

You seem to be operating on the premise that caliphates were peaceful multicultural, almost utopian, societies. They weren't. All kinds of crimes against the subjugated people were the norm. And it's not just the massacres, slavery, and the usually stuff but also bizarre practices like the blood tax practiced by the Ottoman empire (young Christian boys taken from their families, converted to Islam, trained into Janissaries, and sent back to kill their own people)

As for Syria/Iraq, it wasn't any pretty under Ottoman rule. Perhaps a quote from Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad describing Damascus massacre can help paint the picture.

They say those narrow streets ran blood for several days, and that men, women and children were butchered indiscriminately and left to rot by hundreds all through the Christian quarter; they say, further, that the stench was dreadful. All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the 'infidel dogs.' The thirst for blood extended to the high lands of Hermon and Anti-Lebanon, and in a short time twenty-five thousand more Christians were massacred and their possessions laid waste. How they hate a Christian in Damascus!

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> Nations as a concept didn't exist when those empires were founded

Nations as in "a group of people united by common descent, history, culture, and language, inhabiting a particular state or territory" most certainly did exist.

> Within the boundaries of the empire you had peace and prosperity.

Then you don't know much (or anything) about the life of people conquered by caliphates.