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> But if it was obvious that it was wrong, why did masses of people agree to this? They wouldn't have done it if they also saw it as wrong. Because we, as a sp
by groby_b 13y ago
> But if it was obvious that it was wrong, why did masses of people agree to this? They wouldn't have done it if they also saw it as wrong.
Because we, as a species, learn.
Yes, value systems might change. But it seems, at least to me, that they rarely (not never, but rarely) revert back to older norms.
We probably are "wrong" about things we believe right now, too. Some of the beliefs will be considered wrong in the future because we have different circumstances. Most of them will have changed because we've realized they're actively harmful to the continued existence of a human society.
- exue 13y agoIt goes beyond learning though - I'd say we actually need those changed circumstances and advanced technologies for those changes to happen. Trying to adapt a 2010 US morality or system of government to a 1200 Mongols environment or a prehistoric one probably would just be a huge mismatch and not work.
- ameister14 13y agoValue systems revert to older norms all the time. In the 20's, people were liberated-then in the 40's and 50's, conservative. 60's-70's? liberated and alternately naive and cynical. 80's-early 90's? conservative. This happens all the time. People go in cycles, not in a line. Sure, Hegel, you can argue that the cycles have an overall slope, but that doesn't always bare out.