Being fully rational requires taking stock of the whole. To focus exclusively on good (or bad) is to make a partial judgment. To deny the Enlightenment's responsibility for anything bad after, say, 1750 while giving it credit for everything good thereafter is a double standard.
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Agreed - it's a straw man to say "You say the brave men of the Enlightenment invented this stuff out of whole cloth." >
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Let's not forget that little 1000+ year period when heresy got you burned at the stake and the aristocracy lorded it over the miserable proles. Heads rolled (literally) to change that, so that the supercilious could mock the resulting freedoms.
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Actually what am I saying: the Enlightenment invented science. Before 1789 particles would do whatever TF they wanted.
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