(September 16, 2014 at 7:31 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I don't suppose you were around then to hold the opinion that was the societal norm. The vast majority thought that position to be sound and rational. How much is our collective thinking shaped by fleeting fashion.
Don't have to be. I know why people thought those opinions were sound and rational, also I also know why they were wrong. Because they didn't know the fact. Many opinions today are thought to be sound and rational and facts may prove them wrong as well.