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Our use of non-renewable energy sources, or just even the use of gasoline/diesel in personal automobiles. It wasn't that long ago that leaded gasoline was a th

• meowface 11y ago
  Ignorance regarding energy and lead can stem from lack of scientific advance. When there's only a little bit of evidence suggesting lead is neurotoxic, compared to a mountain of it, it seems like less of a threat. By contrast, there's really no ethical excuse for why anyone in any time period would seek to ban gay marriage or racial integration.
  • justinator 11y ago
    I mean, that's cool. The question I was answering was, > I often wonder how much of what I see today as "normal" > will be perceived as horrible / offensive / wrong in 50 > years time. And technologies that are polluting our environment for selfish gains fits! I'm sure we could dig [0], and find a majority who thought ethnic groups were somehow not actually 100% human and thus, OK to treat as such, and only with scientific evidence, that was overturned - perhaps that was the #1 excuse for abuse of ethnic groups, and I'm talking genocidal proportions. There are people who now still don't believe being gay isn't anything but a choice someone makes. Which I'm sure you and I know understand as a bat-shit crazy stance. I mean, you tell me - how long ago was it that the majority around you thought along similar lines when it came to trans-folk? A few months? Do you think scientific evidence is going to help, or hurt these people live much better lives? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch