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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
In relation to how things were in the past, I have no power to change the situation then so what can be said but "that was the way things were". Unless you think saying that should automatically be followed by a condemnation of some aspect of the past time concerned.
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That's very much my view, too. It seems entirely unreasonable to me to condemn an author for holding views that were entirely representative of his or her society, regardless of how much attitudes today may be different. As I said in an earlier post, we are all products of our own society.