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No point other than that it’s easy to forget that Western “enlightenment” is a very recent development. That’s not to equivocate bank account restrictions with
by avinium 7y ago
No point other than that it’s easy to forget that Western “enlightenment” is a very recent development.
That’s not to equivocate bank account restrictions with being stoned for adultery. Or that we shouldn’t push for even moderate Islamic countries to adopt liberal policies towards women’s rights.
It’s just an interesting perspective on Western history that gets lost on the moral high ground.
- tim333 7y agoAlso the Islamic countries seem to be changing in the same direction. eg from Pinker >Polls find that young Muslims in the Middle East are about as liberal as young western Europeans were in the early 1960s.