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I think those of us who've lived most/all of their lives in the modern technological age, with modern ideas about human rights and modern medicine (at least in the western world) forget all too easily just what a miserable, hard existence most people have had from the time we climbed down out of the trees.
Just as an example, try watching "The Exorcist". Do you know what the scariest part of the movie is? It's when they take that little girl to get a brain scan! Seventies medicine! They clamp her to a machine, jam a needle about a foot long in her throat and then the thing goes "Bang! Bang! Bang!" while she quivers in fear. And that's only going back to 1972.
Something tells me that, 200 hundred years from now, people will be saying the same things about us. I guess I'd rather be one of them.
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