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> I deeply oppose the reading of history that judge historical events and persons with today's moral. Should we apply this logic to time only or space as well?
by goodpoint 4y ago
> I deeply oppose the reading of history that judge historical events and persons with today's moral.
Should we apply this logic to time only or space as well?
- zajio1am 4y agoYou can communicate through space but not through time (from future to past).
- goodpoint 4y agoMissing the point?
- Tainnor 4y agoI guess their point is that we can try to influence people who are from other cultures, e.g. about the value of universal human rights (and I think we should, though which method is the best is debatable). By contrast, we can't really tell a dead person to behave differently because, well, they're dead.
- goodpoint 4y agoAnd yet we can and should evaluate the moral implications of past actions.
- Tainnor 4y agoWe can, but if we do it without any historical context, then it will mean that basically everyone who ever lived in the past was immoral (and it will most likely also mean that we'll all be considered very immoral by people in the future), and I can't see that being a particularly useful point of view.
- Wicher 4y agoPeople naturally move through time. Everyone, all at the same speed. And in the same.e direction - you can't time-travel back in time. And intent plays no role. Moving across space: Not everyone, not all at the same speed, not all in the same direction. And intent plays a role (note that it can be someone else's intent that's propelling one of course). So I'm saying that time and space seem qualitatively quite different. That turns the question of > Should we apply this logic to time only or space as well? into one to be further explored with a "why? they're quite different" answer, rather than with a "yeah why not" answer.