(August 7, 2015 at 11:17 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 10:57 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: There seems to be a line here that some people are taking that morals are set and immovable.
This position is demonstrably wrong.
I agree that morality is linked to communities.
(August 7, 2015 at 10:57 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Our society now is the most moral ever ..
Don't think that I would go that far. There may be less extreme physical suffering but there is enormous tolerance for gross inequities. There was more brutality in the past but I'm not sure we aren't just as far from hitting the moving moral target as we ever were.
By this I mean the world comes together to help stricken countries in ways they never did in the past.
There are agencies like the UN and medicin sans frontier who set out to aid people in need where in the past when people set off it was to invade, or worse, preach.
Laws tend to be more secular and so are more amenable to human need rather than appeasing some unknowable diety.
People are generally more tolerant of differences or are at least aware that not tolerating is frowned on.
In these ways society has moved on a little from the actions and attitudes of the past.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
