Andrew Wilson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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If that was the case, then we could have slavery, and that would be moral, simply because the majority said it was.
Well, yes.
They did, right?
Well, this is true.
But the thing is, that's the idea of presentism.
The whole world always believed in that, just like the whole world usually didn't entertain things like race mixing, though they had no conceptualization of race.
They thought of things in a tribal way.
But they didn't do that either.
Like, that was one of the things the United States always gets shit because in the, you know, 20s, 30s, 40s, especially heading into World War II, post-World War I, well, you know, there was a lot of segregation with black people.
Well, that was global, though.
That was global.
You know, everyone was racist then.
Like everybody.
And so you're looking at this through the prism of, you know, presentism.
And the reason that that's kind of... Come back to the destiny sucking dicks point, because it's important, obviously.
Because I said so.
Why shouldn't I?
Why do we have to make that compromise?
Because we want to live in the society of other people who have different views, right?
Now we're moving into the right reduction.