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> Just out of curiosity, what are notable examples of people saying “we should judge people by the standards of their time” in a reasonable way? Do you conside
by y4mi 5y ago
> Just out of curiosity, what are notable examples of people saying “we should judge people by the standards of their time” in a reasonable way?
Do you consider eating meat at a restaurant to be a morally acceptable thing to do?
The meat you consume there is likely factory grown, which means that the animal lived in total misery until it was brutally murdered under extreme duress.
It's highly likely that people will consider treating animals like that to be immoral at some point. If you don't accept your quote as truth you'll also have to accept that your descends will consider you (and everyone else in our society) monstrous.
- tshaddox 5y agoI absolutely accept that people in the future might consider things I have done to be monstrous.
- jfengel 5y agoDo you accept that at some point they might try to take away an honor from you because of it? Personally, I'd say yes. I know enough to try to diminish my animal consumption, but for a variety of reasons I haven't eliminated it. If that is someday seen as monstrous enough that they want to revoke my awards and recognition, I'm actually all for it. It will be a better, kinder world than the one I live in.