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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It doesn't matter to me if anyone thinks it's "unsupportable" or not. I'm not looking for validation or approval for my suggestion It's just a very basic tenent of my personal philosophy. No one who believes another life (or race or ethnic group) is of lesser intrinsic worth than their own is a person of good conscience. Such beliefs disqualify them. No matter when they may have lived.
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There seems little point in continuing this interesting discussion then, regrettably. I always try to follow the advice of my philosophy lecturer, which is to accept that people in the past had beliefs and attitudes which can seem alien - at times even abhorrent - to us today, and to examine their arguments in the light of those beliefs. You can't understand a different culture if you begin with the baggage of a 21st-century belief system colouring your approach to that culture.
Thank you for the interesting discussion, anyway.