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Firm disagree! Example: take a tour of the tower of London and learn about all the nasty medieval tortures we used to inflict on people. Now we don't do that an
by chongli 3y ago
Firm disagree! Example: take a tour of the tower of London and learn about all the nasty medieval tortures we used to inflict on people. Now we don't do that anymore.
Humans learn things collectively via culture and cultural transmission has been an extremely effective tool of knowledge preservation over the generations.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoArguably culture has been degrading somewhat lately
- dmix 3y agoThis has been the popular narrative in almost all common written history forever. It’s basically the biggest recurring theme in diaries from the Middle Ages, especially among religious text. Things are never an upward hockey stick but they also aren’t saw waves skirting a baseline.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI’ve seen worse in person unfortunately
- pixl97 3y agoI mean ya in some places in the world they still do torture people like that. Based on some of the shit my neighbors post online there is but a thin veneer on society that keeps them from doing it now.
- nradov 3y agoWho is "we"? Torturing people to death in equally horrific ways is still routine practice among radical Islamists and Mexican drug cartels, among others.