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newtypeofdog
5y ago
Why would this be insulting to anyone? There is no benefit to worshiping people from the past. Quite the opposite, ideas can and should stand in their own. The person who “discovered” them is of no consequence and at best a distraction.
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newtypeofdog
5y ago
> If we judged all the many enormously influential and sometimes celebrated figures of civilization's history by modern moral standards, there would be virtually none left to applaud who were born before the 1960s. Good! We have a