Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Semlor: The Dessert That Killed A King" video.

@doubtful_seer The French revolution was really no different from the class warfare of later years, under regimes like Pol Pot. It's a classic example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Sure you killed the corrupt nobles, but you also killed the majority of your most intelligent people. That's why the nation was in turmoil for years afterward; nobody knew how to govern.
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@BlindErephon The nobility should have been eliminated in the end, don't get me wrong. I'm not an aristocrat. I just believe that if you undertake a revolution where you kill en masse what are typically the most educated people in your society, expect to have problems for a few generations or more. The major problems always come when the many are blamed for the sins of a few. You're conflating individual merits and crimes versus social justice, which is the problem.
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@BlindErephon I'm actually not talking about the republican government at all. I'm talking about the general health of society as a whole. You can't have technological advancement, savvy merchants who contribute to your economy, etc. if nobody is educated in these things or poised in a position to invest in them. It's similar to the slaughter of the kulaks, except they served a different role and were not as ostentatious or aristocratic, but they both left a void in society that needed to be filled. That will lead to turmoil which might have been avoided. Government doesn't make anything constructive happen, it only facilitates ( and that's only in the best case scenario). Your rhetoric with the "the entire class of nobles" is troublesome and makes me wonder whether you think social justice is unironically a good policy, when really it is the justification for just about every genocide and classist murder spree ever committed.
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