You can respect your ancestors without respecting all of their opinions. Just as our 22nd century descendants might have the wisdom to respect our fallible & often foolish selves.
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Is this a criticism of originalist interpretations of the Constitution? Or a defense of Confederate statues? Or what, exactly?
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General principles have little to no meaning in social sciences apart from expressing truisms, and I'd say this is a good example of that. "You can respect your ancestors without respecting all of their opinions" is about on a level w/"Not everything is pure good or pure evil."
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I think this is more a comment on the fluidity of our value systems.
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