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I think our moral viewpoint has changed over time ! When we were in tribes killing animals, that was deemed necessary at that point of time, because of all the
by vinutheraj 17y ago
I think our moral viewpoint has changed over time !
When we were in tribes killing animals, that was deemed necessary at that point of time, because of all the benefits of animal food and the shelter provided by the animal skin.
Then we moved into killing other humans, to gain control of their resources, because it was either them or us. I think it was correct from their viewpoint what they did.
It's unfair to judge them using our morality, maybe our descendants will judge us in the future for wasting our natural resources, who knows ?!
- riffraff 17y agoone of the most interesting moments of my 2009 was listening to a guy showing off this http://tafkav.blogspot.com/ http://tafkav.blogspot.com/ and talking about how we do not still consider plants (and computers!) as having rights (cfr. "Should Trees Have Standings?"). This seems completely unreasonable to us but the same was true between e.g. people and animals, europeans and native americans, japanese and chinese (see the nanking massacre). The "evolution of empathy" is probably still an ongoing process for which our descendants will consider us barbarians.