• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    For 200,000 years, the world was an extremely violent place, where slavery, genocide, etc were the norm. The idea is usually to try to move away from that.

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      7 months ago

      Of course, there are not more people in slavery today than at any other time in the past, nor does genocide go on especially not in industrial scales.

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        7 months ago

        Scale those thoughts to the human populations at the time. To give an extreme example, if Genghis Khan caused the same scale of death today, that would be 800,000,000 dead.

        The world today is far better than it was, but nobody said it is was anywhere near perfect.