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Clearly doesnt know what the story is actually about. Taxes.
I guess if you take "rob from the rich and give to the poor" at face value it makes sense.
That's the children's version. In the original story, it was him robbing the king for the taxes he stole and returning it to the people it was stolen from. Cant have children learning that #taxationistheft
Didn't this story start as a combination of oral tradition? If so, the only thing anyone living knows is what the oldest written version says, which may be inaccurate. It's a dumb topic.
I dunno the entire history of it, but its about him returning taxes stolen from the people, until it became a childrens story. This is very much common knowledge.
Apparently it isn't common knowledge. Lol
And for what it's worth, no one knows the entire history of it. That was my point regarding how dumb the originality debates are. For all anyone knows, the "children's" version may actually be closer to the original oral tradition.
You ever do the long line of whispers game as a kid?
It doesn't matter anyway. Old stories don't dictate reality, regardless of how they are told or the conclusions that come from them. Children should be taught to investigate reality using tools like science, psychology, and philosophy vs stories. That's the actual problem, in my opinion. You can NOT tell your kids Santa is real or that Robin stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but that alone doesn't actually equip them for life on earth as a rational being. I never see anything fruitful come of these debates. No one ever gets to the root issues.
I should say arguing over originality is dumb. We don't know and it makes little difference to what reality is regardless. The study of the history and literature isn't necessarily dumb.
Yeah idgaf I was just making a joke
There’s never enough stories about stirring rebellions, no? Robinhood was the Satoshi of his time 😄
literally a hero cherished for centuries but people are so brainwashed they can't see outside of the 20th century binary.
