Recent content by Ygorbr

Uncanny resemblance to modern day big cities in developing countries. In Brazil the highest homicide rates in the week occur on saturday and sunday by night or early morning, and in general in the vicinity of spots of alcohol and drug consumption. The victims and the authors of the homicides, as...

It was definitely unethical, problematic, violent, but I do see the reasoning behind this cultural institution. It serves many purposes useful in a Bronze Age warlike, probably polygamous and competitive world: you get rid of the surplus of young uneducated, irremediably single (because in a...