RE: Are religions that preach inequality for women and gays, traitors to their country?
January 26, 2021 at 3:57 pm
(January 26, 2021 at 1:50 pm)Greatest I am Wrote:(January 26, 2021 at 1:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Think of it as reading through a couple of websites to find things you don’t know. I’ll start you off, though. From the Wikipedia article on infanticide:
Boru
It was never most societies. It was generally only where resources were short and people were hungry.
If common, many of the societies would have dies out, if it was a common practice.
Regards
DL
You are (deliberately, I think) evading the point. You claimed earlier that morality does not change, I have shown that it does. The societies mentioned above practiced infanticide and held it up in the case of deformed, sickly or ‘wrong’ sex newborns as a moral good. Those societies no longer do so. Therefore, this is evidence of moral change.
And it doesn’t matter if it was most societies or only a handful. It doesn’t alter the fact that the morality of killing newborns has changed.
I think you’re wrong when you say it was ‘generally’ done for economic reasons, but let’s say you’re right. It STILL wouldn’t alter the changed morality regarding infanticide, since a parent killing a child today because of scarce resources would be condemned morally as well as legally.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson