(July 29, 2023 at 1:07 am)Varium Wrote: "Well, I'm just thinking of the Bad Old Days, before people started saying that everyone has [or should have] equal rights.
Like in Ancient Greece or Rome, it was just assumed that a person who is athletic, good-looking, rich, speaks well, reasons well, and has leadership abilities in politics and war, is just a superior person and ought to have more power and privilege. The thought that someone who is the opposite of all these things should somehow have equality would have seemed unnatural back then.
You can say, "well, we just changed our minds," but that doesn't really explain to me why or when our values changed. Or whether our current thinking is somehow more "natural," or likely to endure."
Except for the being-against-infanticide part, I honestly don't believe people's current way of thinking IS natural, however I do think it is better. I honestly can't name when our views changed either, but I think our views started to change when wars became less necessary and humans started focusing more on intellectual matters rather than fighting and killing one another. Murder became less and less common, and more frowned upon.
Possibly when it became the norm for families to be able to feed every child.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
