/lit/ - Literature

>NOOOO HUMANS ARE LE ESSENTIALLY EVIL AND WE NEED TO ERECT HUGE OPPRESSIVE STATE INSTITUTIONS TO KEEP THEIR SELF-DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES AT BAY
>NOOOOO HUMANERINOS ARE ACTUALLY LE GOOD AND IT'S PRECISELY THE INSTITUTIONAL POWER THAT CORRUPTS THEM AND MAKES THEM BAD
Give me a fucking break. Hundreds of years of pointless debates concerning the "nature" of human beings and still no one has been able to point an actual human being in a state of nature i.e. a presocial human being.
>inb4 savage tribes
They are already socialized precisely for the reason that they form tribes. Trying to discover the nature of humans, distilled and removed from all constraints imposed on it by society, seems to be a fruitless endeavour and so far it has produced little results.

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>forum.duolingo.com
For the record I know both Polish and Russian and it's certainly not true that a Polish person could just learn the Russian alphabet, pick up a book and start reading. OP would have it way easier with Russian than self-taught dilletants from /lit/ but it would still require some effort on his part to learn the language and come to terms with its unique character which doesn't lend itself to easy translation into Polish whereas from your post I got the impression that in your post you were implying he would just have to pick up the book and start reading