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> Just look at history history shows us a relentless increase in consideration of, and protection of, human rights. The moral ideas you are talking about are r
by fsckboy 4y ago
> Just look at history
history shows us a relentless increase in consideration of, and protection of, human rights. The moral ideas you are talking about are relatively recent, especially in their widespread application. While we were developing ever better technologies for labor saving and weapons building, we were also building better "legal, civic, and democratic" technologies for governance and egalitarianism.
if I look at history, I'm filled with optimism and hope. Every negative idea you fear, was more fearsome in the past.
- contravariant 4y agoYou may want to zoom in on the industrial revolution a bit, things were bad before they got better, and I'm not sure we've ironed out all the kinks yet.
- modeless 4y agoHonestly I agree with you. But progress isn't inevitable and monotonic. It requires effort, and backsliding is a real possibility. I hope we can focus effort on the realistic dangers and not on speculative fiction.
- ogurechny 4y agoIf I look at “history”, I see misery and piles of corpses. Sometimes those piles get quite high, and bigger than average amount of people ponder whether there was an error that caused such a catastrophe, and propose changes which slowly get spread through generations. (It's no wonder general public still believes in the 19th century phantom of “progress”.)
- loldk 4y ago[dead]