Re: Fighting fire with fire
" However, we do not live in the same world we did 5000 years ago, or even 50 years ago."
This is arrogance and you have much company. When H(omo) Sapien gives way to H(omo) Next then you can claim to be living in a different world. Until then there is the accumulated wisdom of 5000 years of civilization to guide us. You would toss most of it wholesale and for mostly venal and selfish reasons. This is an oft repeated mistake that can lead to minor or major setbacks to the current civilization.
It's the Fox Moulder school of morality. I want to believe...that indiscriminant premaratial sex is just fine, no negative societal effect...that single moms raise kids equal to married male and female couples...that homosexuality has has no downside...etc. Wishing won't make it so. Rationalization won't make it so. Cognitive dissonance requires many to pretend that all is well with their lifestyle chosen but when it contradicts strictures that go back 5000 years you really need question your choices.
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