Comment on Just a few
elbiter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What should be controversial is pretending a goat shepherds religious book from the bronze age should have any kind of authority in the 21st century.
Comment on Just a few
elbiter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What should be controversial is pretending a goat shepherds religious book from the bronze age should have any kind of authority in the 21st century.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean, if the goat shepherds have some strong moral positions, I don’t see why they’d be disqualified. Ethics isn’t something we invented in the 21st century, ffs. Bronze Age humans had as much a claim to it as anyone. Just ask Socrates or Confucius or Nezahualcóyotl.
Given the current state of the 21st century political scene, I’m not bending over to give modern day philosophers extra credit. Say what you will about Thomas Aquinas, he doesn’t appear anywhere in the Epstein flight logs. That’s more than Noam Chomsky or Steven Pinker can claim.