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> I wonder if any of our current practices will be viewed as barbaric. Here we go again, everyone posts their pet not-actually-barbaric thing under the moral a
by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
> I wonder if any of our current practices will be viewed as barbaric.
Here we go again, everyone posts their pet not-actually-barbaric thing under the moral authority of people from the future.
- Pigo 7y agoBy so many metrics our lives are incredible compared to every other period of human history. Of course it's not perfect, there's always room to improve, but there's a stark contrast between how things actually are and how many perceive it to be. Very few problems are as unambiguous as slavery. A lot of our problems are much more nuanced.
- humanrebar 7y agoSlavery is unambiguous in retrospect. I find the mental gymnastics of the slaveholders to be fascinating and disturbing. The most barbaric things we do now are probably closely guarded by people as legitimate traditions or rights.