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Societies with high human capital respect the dead and won't seize upon the first opportunity to rob their graves (rationalizing as "learning" or whatever doesn
by ResearchCode 5y ago
Societies with high human capital respect the dead and won't seize upon the first opportunity to rob their graves (rationalizing as "learning" or whatever doesn't cut it). There's plenty of other material that was willfully published to learn from.
- riversflow 5y agoI disagree. I have extremely high respect for human capital, and genuinely feel disgusted that especially western society isn't working hard to improve the human condition at it's most basic level, i.e. Automation first. To me the long dead are meaningless, and the recently dead are mostly so. I have the utmost respect for the living, and those who are recently dead have people who care about their legacy. But the farther you go back you go, the less direct connection the dead have with the present, and the simple fact is that the dead are gone.
- ceilingcorner 5y agoPretty much the entirety of the modern world is built on the accumulation of ideas and knowledge acquired over thousands of years. Unless you are a hunter gatherer, you have a direct relationship to the long dead.
- riversflow 5y agoOh I agree 100%, I'm fully of the belief that we stand on the shoulders of giants, and that Social contract theory has merit; we owe society for the world we are born into. But owing society isn't the same as owing respect to individuals. We can't be burdened by the wishes of those long dead, they no longer exist and as a society we have to move on.
- bredren 5y agoThey respect _their_ dead. There is relatively minuscule respect paid to dead native people that lived in their land before they arrived.