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Are you aware of how many homophobes there are in the older generations compared to the millennials? Or ignorance in general? It doesn't even compare.
by cheesylard 13y ago
Are you aware of how many homophobes there are in the older generations compared to the millennials? Or ignorance in general? It doesn't even compare.
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoIt's possible that, as enlightened as you may justifiably feel you are, your grandchildren will find you embarrassingly ignorant and closed-minded about something, too.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoGod willing. It would be pretty freakish and embarrassing to get old and find that nobody has improved on any of our stupidity.
- nathan_long 13y agoImprovement implies progress toward an objective moral standard. I believe in one, so that's a fine statement by me, but then I also believe that each generation has moral strong spots and moral blind spots.
- nathan_long 13y ago>> Are you aware of how many homophobes there are in the older generations compared to the millennials? Or ignorance in general? It doesn't even compare. Judging older generations by today's standards isn't really any different then them judging you by their standards. I'd say Thomas Jefferson was wrong for having slaves. Granted, that was bad. But if he had a time machine, he'd probably point out all kinds of moral blind spots in my generation.
- Sagat 13y agoYou are forgetting that morality is not absolute. It fluctuates over time. It's possible that in the future, homophobia may become the norm again in developed countries. People in that era will look down on us as permissive degenerates, just like we look at 19th century people as intolerant bigots.
- dnautics 13y agoI didn't specify how big the subset was (I happen to think it's actually quite large).