all Ethics must be reduced to math so that only mathematicians can be confident that they are acting ethically this would solve a lot of problems
so surely all men born in idk say Periclean Athens were irredeemably wicked start to finish on account of their reprehensible views of women thats pretty interesting youd've have thought that a reasonable fraction wouldve figured out the Correct 21C view but somehow no??
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this, but unironically
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Lots of people study the classics and few study the blog posts of modern racist misogynists just in case there is wisdom buried there somewhere. On a level, they realize that a person who is a racist misogynist now is less good than a person who was racist misogynist back then.
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like, the idea that people in the past were wicked because we hadn't figured out goodness seems uncontroversial? History is one long litany of misery and subjugation.
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hell, it's trivially extensible to the present, i'm fine with saying there is plenty of miserycausing stuff going on rn that we'll be judged for later.
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If there is some sort of continuum between that evil society and a good society (like there kind of is between ancient Athens and the modern West) then maybe the wickedness was worth it. Aztecs were evil but were also a dead end, so their evil was not worth it.
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