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This is the history of the world. This day and age is nothing special in that regard.
by thordenmark 8mo ago
This is the history of the world. This day and age is nothing special in that regard.
- therobots927 8mo agoExcept we are supposed to evolve as a species and as a civilization. Is slavery okay because “it’s always been done”?
- brookst 8mo agoThe US increasingly rejects evolution, in every sense including this one.
- therobots927 8mo agoIt always has. Or at least tried to. Despite that the Civil Rights movement achieved massive success during a much more regressive period of US society. Trump represents a swing of the pendulum that has been brewing ever since. The election of Obama supercharged this reaction and incited panic in the white nationalist segments of the population. This too shall pass.
- hearsathought 8mo agoSlavery is not okay because the guys with the bigger guns said so. Read up on the civil war.
- therobots927 8mo agoThat’s why slavery “no longer exists in the US” (up for debate). That’s not what makes it morally unacceptable. Force doesn’t determine morality. It determines what happens. Your statement amounts to a tautology: “whatever happens is what happens” And by the way, that’s not even the whole story. The civil rights movement succeeded without force or violence for the most part. So your whole framework is pretty flimsy I think.
- hearsathought 8mo ago> That’s not what makes it morally unacceptable. Who decides what is morally unacceptable? Those with power. > Force doesn’t determine morality. Really? How else is morality enforced? Other than by force? > It determines what happens. What happens? Like deciding what is moral or not? > Your statement amounts to a tautology: “whatever happens is what happens” No it doesn't.