Yeah -- I caution people against the zero sum mentality all the time. We should think like historians and treat these things as objects of study, bound by the constraints of the civilization that made them.
I can’t remember the exact phrasing he’s used but the excellent @mattzollerseitz has said that we cannot entirely fault the past for not being the present.
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