Posted: Dec 14, 2015 11:58 pm
Macdoc wrote:Likely best left as dust along with phrenology and "race" in humans.
It was all an inevitability, as was slavery and Colonialism, given the nature of most humans. Wherever we are now and wherever we end up, it will be as a consequence of what we've been through. The same principles apply even to science, where we progress upon the back of our mistakes.
... I wouldn't condemn mankind's past mistakes in any domain, as our hope resides in evolving from them. I wouldn't mind, but human society as a whole is on the verge of being completely fucked, so 21st century humans have enough on their plate without scoffing at their ancestors.