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The modern, western world still had slavery as recently as 150 years ago, so that too is not really a marker to differentiate between our era and antiquity. No
by bambax 5y ago
The modern, western world still had slavery as recently as 150 years ago, so that too is not really a marker to differentiate between our era and antiquity.
Not to mention all the wars and genocides of the last two centuries, unprecedented in scale and ferocity, which make it hard to pretend we are morally better than any previous generation.
- kragen 5y agoAs I mentioned, the Burj Khalifa was built to a significant extent with slave labor, being completed only ten years ago, while the Great Pyramid probably was not, despite what the Greeks thought two thousand years later. In the United States there are some two million prisoners, most of whom also perform slave labor, as did the victims of GULAG. Perhaps the Khwarazmians would disagree that the genocides of the last two centuries were unprecedented in scale and ferocity.