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Old 27-03-2012, 04:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Akaalis
All I can say is that today's science is materialistic and very selfish in nature with no moral anchor from which to keep grounded. It disregards and even insults the existence of a god(or at least a higher moral authority) to which we should follow and live by. Just look at the world today, is completely driven by science and has become morally deprived and degenerate. Goodness and Virtue of Heart is laughed at and rarely practiced nowadays. Its quite sad....
That's not true at all.

In previous eras babies would be thrown off cliffs because they were deformed, or mentally deficient (Sparta, for instance); people would be forced to fight to the death for entertainment (Rome and Medieval Europe, for instance); the average person was not a citizen, but lesser and to become a citizen of a given nation was based on the race of the individual and their social status (Just about every culture all throughout the Bronze Age [and prior] in the Near East Asia); human blood sacrifice was a standard of some region's religions (South America, for instance); the murder rates (what we would class as murder) in most previous eras was considerably high - as well as permitted in many regions (Levant region, for instance, permitted killing for a multitude of reasons outside of involving a legal ruling system); if you are an individual that concerns over sexual conduct, then just about every previous era of culture in the Western world had far more elaborate sexual conduct than our current era (not even going into such concepts as sexual slavery); it was of the standard practice of most regions (even up until the 1930's) to force other peoples of nations, which a "ruling" nation took control of by force, to go into battles for the "ruling" nation (with no compensation to those individuals not being uncommon).

This is not to mention the repeated trend of religious societal rule (meaning, when an individual ruler of religious zeal took ruling power) in the Near East Asia (more-so this region) and the Holy Roman Empire (during its championed era) not only killing reams of scientific communities, but also destroying their facilities and banning their work further.
Such actions, for example, utterly destroyed the advancements of the Muslim Empire in Astronomy and Mathematics where they had been leading the world previously.

I'm not sure what's so terrible today by comparison to, "then", but there was surely not a more moral age, or a better age in that regard, than now.

And there certainly was not an age in any of these above examples where "Goodness and Virtue of Heart" lead anything.
Blood, force, wealth, and class ruled almost exclusively in most eras of humankind.
"Goodness and Virtue of Heart", were not only laughed at in many of these previous eras, but there were also plenty that would banish an individual or outright kill them for expressing such sentiment in competition to the standard of the society.

The Iron Age and Bronze Age Near East Asia, for instance, was almost exclusively governed by a philosophy of "Us versus Them", and mixing with any peoples outside of your race (which, at the time, was equal to your "peoples", or "nation") was not only forbidden and looked down upon, but considered to be betrayal on every level; thereby sentencing you to either death or severe reduction of your class level.


This isn't to say there were not multitudes of amazing advancements and philosophies to admire...but these previous ages were defiantly not more moral by nearly any common standard of today's measure.


Oh, and that's not even bringing up the lovely era of eugenics which survived on into the 1950's, and of which such agencies as Planned Parenthood were started from as an interest of preventing, "undesirables", from breeding, or that the national breeding association of America governed the policies of regarding eugenics of immigration standards.
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