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"[@Joseph Raszagal":](/1044769#comment_5182293
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Yes, people do, but it's moved on to crime -_*hate crime_* - which is even more harshly punished in most first world countries. It used to be the major powers that would do it by law. Now it's poor countries that are back a thousand years, and criminals.
Far from perfect, we are, yes, but if you think we aren't improving, then this can only be - I don't mean this too harshly but in the literal sense - a lack of awareness of what the world really used to be like.
There was racial slavery. Races of people were treated, by law, as subhuman. People went to war over pride and national fervor.
We don't do racial slavery. Blacks and women and gays get equal protection under the law - even if you want to argue they don't, you can't dispute that the legislation says they do, and it used to not.
We don't go to war for the glory of empire. We do it when we think other nations are already trying to kill us.
Major powers don't go to war with each other any more. We don't burn entire cities.
We have come a long way from centuries ago, never mind millennia, where opposing those in power would get you put to death, not political support.
Maybe the third world is still like this, and I do think the third world will always exist.
But we left them behind. If those people refuse to be civil, refuse to work together despite their differences, refuse to stop killing each other for stupid reasons - then just like we left them behind when we landed on the moon or built the space station, they will again be left in our dust as we take to the stars, and we will remember their mistakes so we will never live like they did, but we will forget them.
If they refuse to ascend with us, then let them be left behind. If they refuse to rise to their better being and fulfill their potential, then our destiny as a species has no room for them to come with us as we spread to the stars and take our place in the universe.
That's my thought on the future of humanity. The best will rise, the bad will be forgotten and left behind. We won't have to judge them, their lack of cooperation and peace will undo themselves, and their actions will be their own judgement. Their desire for bloodshed will be their fate they deliver to each other, while visions of peace and prosperity will become ours, as we deliver it to each other.
Sciencepone of Science!
Yes, people do, but it's moved on to crime -
Far from perfect, we are, yes, but if you think we aren't improving, then this can only be - I don't mean this too harshly but in the literal sense - a lack of awareness of what the world really used to be like.
There was racial slavery. Races of people were treated, by law, as subhuman. People went to war over pride and national fervor.
We don't do racial slavery. Blacks and women and gays get equal protection under the law - even if you want to argue they don't, you can't dispute that the legislation says they do, and it used to not.
We don't go to war for the glory of empire. We do it when we think other nations are already trying to kill us.
Major powers don't go to war with each other any more. We don't burn entire cities.
We have come a long way from centuries ago, never mind millennia, where opposing those in power would get you put to death, not political support.
Maybe the third world is still like this, and I do think the third world will always exist.
But we left them behind. If those people refuse to be civil, refuse to work together despite their differences, refuse to stop killing each other for stupid reasons - then just like we left them behind when we landed on the moon or built the space station, they will again be left in our dust as we take to the stars, and we will remember their mistakes so we will never live like they did, but we will forget them.
If they refuse to ascend with us, then let them be left behind. If they refuse to rise to their better being and fulfill their potential, then our destiny as a species has no room for them to come with us as we spread to the stars and take our place in the universe.
That's my thought on the future of humanity. The best will rise, the bad will be forgotten and left behind. We won't have to judge them, their lack of cooperation and peace will undo themselves, and their actions will be their own judgement. Their desire for bloodshed will be their fate they deliver to each other, while visions of peace and prosperity will become ours, as we deliver it to each other.