"Temporal Arrogance"
People do and have done all kinds of things - and people from other cultures and times think that much of what they do is horrible and beyond human understanding. But is it patently unfair - more, it's completely unreasonable - to judge people of other times by the standards of today. It displays an arrogance and ignorance of history that is - or should be generally condemned. Examples are multiple. Slavery is considered a horror beyond understanding by all "right thinking" people today. And I agree - after all, I am a person of my time. But to condemn all in the past who practiced or were accepting of slavery is to condemn pretty much the entire human race. Slavery has been a feature of pretty much every culture in history that was wealthy enough to develop class systems. Selling conquered peoples was a standard way to make war pay for itself. Selling children was a standard way to help a poor family survive. Raidin...