Russia: Shooting in Philosophical Clash
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
An argument over the teachings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant between
two men standing in line for beer at an outdoor festival in southern Russia
ended when one man shot the other in the head with gun loaded with
rubber bullets, the state RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing the
police. Though the wound was not critical, the attacker faces up to a
decade in prison if convicted on assault charges. Among educated
Russians, including those who drink, classical literature and philosophy
are sometimes debated in casual social settings, the way sports often
are in Western countries.
3 comments:
Conversation topics to avoid in Russia: politics, religion, sex... and the Critique of Pure Reason.
Thanks for the warning!
In South America, you always omit discussions of Religion, Politics and/or Soccer with a prospective father-in-law
"Master and Margherita a long-time favorite...have there been reports from Moscow of Heideggerians attacking Stoics? And do the Stoics return fire?
I think a more accurate report on Russian repartee would be drunken mutterings about not much at all.
We had a Russian tenant, working at the UN, pre-perestoika, whose ramblings, post night at local bars, lacked sense and syntax.
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