I intended to pass on replying to this, as my position is not changed, but then realized I can illustrate my point in regard to the Fifth Amendment. I'm not fr

I intended to pass on replying to this, as my position is not changed, but then realized I can illustrate my point in regard to the Fifth Amendment. I'm not from the US, but I have an idea about the amendment's contents. Afaik it makes little sense without the presumption of innocence. So to a person living under the feudal law, the self-incrimination clause would be mostly useless. Similarly, if the mankind adopts hard collectivism in the future (in light of overpopulation), the 5th might become meaningless to them. Even today, there are countries where constitutional freedoms are just a political circus, or communities living under mob rule, and if you recite the 5th to a person there, they'd laugh at you. In the US, southern towns until ~1960s are often portrayed this way. The same way, I'm pretty sure the culture ≥2000 years ago was quite different to ours, and personally I'm not interested in cherry-picking the text just to get through it as fast as possible―especially since e.g. Dante or Joyce might have considered different chapters obligatory.