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Humans are awful, and we're still in the stone age as far as social advancements go. News at 11. :( (bearing in mind that the article also talks about shocking

Humans are awful, and we're still in the stone age as far as social advancements go. News at 11. :( (bearing in mind that the article also talks about shockingly high numbers of respondents classifying rape and domestic violence as “acceptable,” for those who haven't read The Fine Article) “In August the Victorian government announced religious instruction during school hours would be scrapped and replaced with education about building respectful relationships.” That's about the only positive take-away from the article. All ministers responsible for education everywhere should follow suit. EDIT: using punctuation is hard, man.

smorrow 11y ago
You sure we're not behind the Stone Age? The mainstream paleoanthropological position is that hunter-gatherers were completely egalitarian socially. Inequality is something that came up (resurfaced actually, because apes have it) only in the last 10-12 thousand years as a result of owning property and land and some people owning more of it than others. Again, this is not my theory, this is what anthropologists actually believe. In the interest of giving both sides, there's a recent book, that I haven't read (yet), called Constant Battles, which disputes all of that. Also: giving classes on this kind of thing solves nothing; see below. Also: the upside of Religious Education is that it was practically a free period, at least where I'm from.