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What you mean isn't something many of the relevant experts would agree with, but the words in the second sentence aren't bad. Similarly to biological evolution
by AlotOfReading 5y ago
What you mean isn't something many of the relevant experts would agree with, but the words in the second sentence aren't bad.
Similarly to biological evolution, on any sufficiently long time scale the descendents aren't more advanced, simply better adapted to different conditions. Our ancestors' societies reflected wildly different contraints and path dependence, not primitiveness.
- kspacewalk2 5y ago>Similarly to biological evolution, on any sufficiently long time scale the descendents aren't more advanced, simply better adapted to different conditions. Our ancestors' societies reflected wildly different contraints and path dependence, not primitiveness. I understand what you mean, yet I refuse to call concepts like universal human rights, rule of law and the unacceptability of war crimes as simply different adaptations, as opposed to being strictly more advanced than the predecessor ideas.
- AlotOfReading 5y agoThat's fine, you can take whatever moral stance you want. It just doesn't have any place in scientific discussion.