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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 09:49 PM
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Poll question: Rate this statement for its insight into the world we live in:
"Society changes, but humanity doesn't."
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 09:56 PM
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1. Meh.
Two hundred years ago torturing dogs was an acceptable public entertainment. One hundred and fifty years ago the United States Constitution legally protected slavery. Five hundred years ago the readily accepted norm in Europe was for monarchs to go to war over what kind of Christian they wanted their country to be, whereupon they would impress thousands of their own people and go off to slaughter the heretics.

Human nature changes slowly, but the outrage and outcry over Abu Ghraib tells me we're evolving.
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