Right? It’s always BS. there have always been people who recognized that hurting and enslaving others was fucked up. There’s no point in recorded history where there weren’t people who would have agreed that some of the shit their neighbors were doing is fucked up.
Two gauls in chains being marched south to a life of Roman slavery. The first one says “man, fuck Caesar.” The second one says “wait, hold on there, buddy. Who are we to judge?”
Uh, how about the priest the Spanish court sent to see what he was up to who listed all of the monstrous shit he did?
Right? It’s always BS. there have always been people who recognized that hurting and enslaving others was fucked up. There’s no point in recorded history where there weren’t people who would have agreed that some of the shit their neighbors were doing is fucked up.
Two gauls in chains being marched south to a life of Roman slavery. The first one says “man, fuck Caesar.” The second one says “wait, hold on there, buddy. Who are we to judge?”
You can’t judge The Founding Fathers by contemporary morality! Everyone was okay with it then!
What about fucking Thomas Paine??