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>by that token just because something is illegal does not necessarily make it bad to do Well, yeah. Hiding a Jew in 1940s Germany or a native child in 1960s Ca
by SuoDuanDao 5y ago
>by that token just because something is illegal does not necessarily make it bad to do
Well, yeah. Hiding a Jew in 1940s Germany or a native child in 1960s Canada was totally illegal. Democracy functions when the individual is the moral authority because large groups reliably become sociopathic. I suspect that's baked into our biology to some degree, why would we historically form a very large group absent the kind of existential crisis that might require sociopathic behaviour?
- suifbwish 5y agoAgreed. Humans are currently caught in an epic struggle with the very primal instincts that enabled our species to endure as an unbroken genetic line descending from the most basic lifeform on earth to one which is capable of modifying its own genome. I doubt there is anything we couls consider “evil” that is not related to the operation of ancient traits which gave our ancestors evolutionary advantage at the time. Also for anyone who is unaware of what was meant by sheltering native children in Canada: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixties_Scoop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixties_Scoop