Whether you're a moral relativist or absolutist, and based on whatever standards you choose, there are actions that you think are immoral. What is morally contemptible to you now might have been commonly accepted practices in the past. Could it be that, sometime in the future, the actions (or inactions) that you sanction now will be condemned by our children? Look into your crystal ball - what do you think we, as a society, will be condemned for in the future?
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Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as a father's duty, homosexuality was a hanging offense, and waterboarding was approved -- in fact, invented -- by the Catholic Church. Through the middle of the 19th century, the United States and other nations in the Americas condoned plantation slavery. Many of our grandparents were born in states where women were forbidden to vote. And well into the 20th century, lynch mobs in this country stripped, tortured, hanged and burned human beings at picnics.
Looking back at such horrors, it is easy to ask: What were people thinking? Yet, the chances are that our own descendants will ask the same question, with the same incomprehension, about some of our practices today. ...here are four contenders for future moral condemnation... Our prison system... Industrial meat production... The institutionalized and isolated elderly... The environment.
What will future generations condemn us for?
DISCUSS!
Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Oct 6, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=342
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