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Missing the point?

• Tainnor 4y ago
  I 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 ago
    And yet we can and should evaluate the moral implications of past actions.
    • Tainnor 4y ago
      We 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.