(March 19, 2019 at 3:31 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: It's understandable, most of us want to be the good guys. The funny/troubling bit is that it;s this desire coupled with the fundamental core of theism of any stripe...that ones cultural prejudices can be elevated to the status of a universe in proper order, that keeps us doing the same shit over and over and rationalizing that after the fact as people having been "doing it wrong"
Nope, they nailed it. It just hasn't aged well.
The majority claims virtue because they are the majority. The minority claims virtue because they are not.
Problem is in the scope of our species history, the terms majority and minority are hollow knowing times change and knowing we are not a separate species.
