re: Why can’t people just acknowledge that ‘things were different’

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Saying “things were just different” is also total bullshite. Owning other humans as property has always been pretty shitty. So things weren’t that different. People were just being shitty

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I get what you’re saying but, to an extent, I think it is fair to say things were different. People did own other people in the past and they always had until relatively recently. Not justifying it but life was different then just as it will be 100 years from now. No one knows which views we all hold now that will be perceived as savagery 2-4 generations from now.

Right or wrong, I don’t think it’s fair to use today’s moral standards to judge our ancestors