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by Aeolun 739 days ago
Uh, 2000 years of European history not enough? Just because it happened a few hundred years earlier doesn’t make it better.
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Yes it does. Moral progress is a real thing. Standards rise over time. Alexander the Great would be a war criminal today, and yet he was considered a relatively easygoing ruler at the time.