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Why weren't pyromaniacs a bigger problem in the past?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
What makes you think they weren't?

[delphonso]

Historically, arson was a crime on par with rape and murder (time and place depending, of course). I think it's interesting that it's LESS of a problem now.

[King Zultan]

Who'd have thought setting fire to things is just as much fun as it is right now as it was in the past.

[Scoops Novel]

Why didn't motivated pyromaniacs burn literally everything over 2 million years? Makes no sense.

[scriver]

Historically, arson was a crime on par with rape and murder (time and place depending, of course). I think it's interesting that it's LESS of a problem now.

Historically, would arson have counted just burning people to death though, or the more broad version of dangerous firestarting we have today?

I'm asking because the Swedish crime label is called mordbrand, literally just "murder-fire", and probably didn't originally include non-murders but grew to include it. (I haven't done any research on that though so I might be off)

[King Zultan]

Why didn't motivated pyromaniacs burn literally everything over 2 million years? Makes no sense.

You act as if it's easy to set fire to everything, you do know some things don't burn right?

[hector13]

Why didn't motivated pyromaniacs burn literally everything over 2 million years? Makes no sense.

You act as if it's easy to set fire to everything, you do know some things don't burn right?

Well, not with that attitude, mate.

[Great Order]

Seeing as we have the thread:

What do you think happens after you die?

It's something that's vexed me (And I have no doubt others) for a while now. Personally I suspect that, depending on the nature of consciousness (ie whether or not it's a physical phenomenon or just an artefact/illusion created by sufficiently complex data processing), it's either utter oblivion or a sort of pseudo-reincarnation where, from your perspective, next time a pattern appears that's identical to the pattern that made up "You" at the moment your consciousness winked out, you continue on. Not necessarily with your memories or anything that anyone'd recognise as making you, you. Just enough of a pattern that it could be said to be conscious. Also the odds of the full pattern appearing a second time is so slim it'd probably take multiple universe cycles (Assuming they happen) to occur.

I am, however, curious to see what other people think.

[EuchreJack]

Seeing as we have the thread:

What do you think happens after you die?

It's something that's vexed me (And I have no doubt others) for a while now. Personally I suspect that, depending on the nature of consciousness (ie whether or not it's a physical phenomenon or just an artefact/illusion created by sufficiently complex data processing), it's either utter oblivion or a sort of pseudo-reincarnation where, from your perspective, next time a pattern appears that's identical to the pattern that made up "You" at the moment your consciousness winked out, you continue on. Not necessarily with your memories or anything that anyone'd recognise as making you, you. Just enough of a pattern that it could be said to be conscious. Also the odds of the full pattern appearing a second time is so slim it'd probably take multiple universe cycles (Assuming they happen) to occur.

I am, however, curious to see what other people think.

I actually like this theory about consciousness continuing.

[MrRoboto75]

What do you think happens after you die?

Some goddam peace and quiet.

[delphonso]

What do you think happens after you die?

Some goddam peace and quiet.

Same boat for me - utter oblivion, I assume.

[scriver]

Not even oblivion, because I will not be in any state of experiencing it

[King Zultan]

When you die, you'll just wake up and go back to doing whatever it is that you do.

[dragdeler]

I once had a dream where 3 faceless black humanoid shadows were at the foot of my bad, and they just nodded pitifully when I asked "so this is real and the other stuff is fake?"

So it's not excluded.

[EuchreJack]

When you die, you'll just wake up and go back to doing whatever it is that you do.

The Horror!