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I mean. Societies even 20, 50, 100, 500 years ago did many awful things to many good people on the basis of "keeping society together". And yet we're still doin
by vertex-four 10y ago
I mean. Societies even 20, 50, 100, 500 years ago did many awful things to many good people on the basis of "keeping society together". And yet we're still doing reasonably well, sometimes centuries after some of these religious rules were dropped. (Not that they were ever very well followed, so long as one's wife/neighbour/pastor didn't find out.)
Additionally, there's quite a variety of different cultures around the world that all do different things. India had quite a number of polygamous marriages until relatively recently, for example - all of its major religions, and the culture surrounding them, are relatively neutral on the subject. Third genders were a relatively common and accepted thing across the world until British Colonialism introduced Christian morals to a lot of places, often reducing them to prostitutes and symbols of evil/bad luck. And so on and so forth.
Honestly - existential worry about one's place in a changing world isn't a new thing. You can find stories on the subject going back centuries. People will figure it out.
- mariodiana 10y agoThe one specific cultural constraint I'm talking about is the where, when, how, and who may have children. It would seem like the overwhelming majority of cultures pay special attention to this.
- vertex-four 10y agoAnd many cultures have significantly different ideas on even that, and even in the Western world it's changed significantly over time.