thats kind of a fatalistic argument. human nature does change over time. consider just the value of life. in the civil war we lost like x000,000 soldiers, now its upsetting when we've lost around 2000. in past cultures if a slave or serf or some other lower class fell ill or was injured, they'd just let them die. now even the poorest person is entitled to emergency medical care. consider how just a couple generations ago it was pretty acceptable for people to beat their wives and/or children like they were property. (if not accepted, it was certainly overlooked, and you sure didn't get involved in their business about it).
there's no reason to expect that people (as a society) can't or won't improve over time, unless of course, nobody tries to.
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Date: 2005-08-10 12:56 am (UTC)there's no reason to expect that people (as a society) can't or won't improve over time, unless of course, nobody tries to.