Originally posted by JB88
not excusing it.
but im not holding a modern standard to a colonial man either.
Nor should you.
If we held everyone form the past to our current standards fully 90% of the population everywhere would be deemed terrible.
As an example just look and the dicipline of children.
There was a time when it was common for a child to be beaten with any number of assorted things. Hell it was common place for Teachers to do it And nobody batted an eye over it.
Now you so much as threaten to hit your kid and you can damn near be crucified.
Sweatshops were also considered norm
Now lets take current times.
Good guess that most of us eat meat and think nothing of it.
Who knows what the standards will be 100 200 years form now.
IF PETA has its way we wont be. Adn then WE will be the ones that look terrible in hindsight
There is a flipside to this also.
How about if we were held to the same standards as those before us.
My Grandfather was arrested for indecent exposure for wearing a swimsuit that looked alot like this back in 1919
Few hundred years ago if you even spoke out against the church you could be tortured. or worse. and back then YOU would have been considered the one who was wrong by everyone.
Imagine how we would be viewed if we were held to the same standards of those before us.
You cant fairly hold those in history to the same standards we hold today.
The standards are entirely different.
Reminds me of an old saying I once heard
"there is no real right or wrong really.
It is only a common way of thinking that makes it so"
