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I'm confused by why you'd point out that historically parents were more ambivalent, if not to excuse Jefferson having enslaved his own offspring (which was not

• rayiner 5y ago
  You don’t need to excuse anything to try and understand something. For example even in 2021, we have Afghans who refuse to send their girls to school. We can’t even comprehend that mindset here in America. We don’t need to excuse it to acknowledge that there may be more to it than us simply being better than Afghans. Pastoral societies are often strongly male dominated even compared to similarly undeveloped agricultural societies. The point is that morality isn’t simply about “we are better than the ignorant people of the past.” That’s part of it obviously, but scientific and technological change often changes the context of how we think about things.