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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:30 PM
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What do you think we are doing today that History will judge harshly?
There are always things we look back on from the relatively small, like segregated water fountains, to the unimaginable, like slavery and human sacrifice, that we judge through a lens of a contemporary ethical center.

I often wonder what my culture is doing that will be seen in the future as atrocity.

Consumerism and resource waste? Pollution? Capitalism? Abortion?

I think maybe we are more awful than we can imagine.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:34 PM
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1. copycat threads
they will be punishable by death in the future
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:38 PM
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4. Perhaps I should stop thinking so much
It will probably be something totally innocuous like communicating exclusively through text with other individuals as a means of socialization.
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:37 PM
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2. We have poisoned the world
for our conveniences.


There may be no "history".


How is that - bleak enough? :shrug:
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:38 PM
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3. Historians will likely come to see...
... this era as the contemporary equivalent of the Dark Ages, quite seriously, one in which the arguably most powerful nation fought successive petty wars for political and economic advantage, where it denied science (and the inevitable future) for corporate and political advantage, and sought to overturn basic human rights for all in favor of more and more repressive government, and one where religion was used, cynically, to create a nationalistic, warmongering one-party state.
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:42 PM
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7. That's the spirit!
Future textbooks: The Resource Wars
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:39 PM
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5. The way we treat the homosexual community.
I have hope that someday, kids will learn about it and gasp in disbelief that they ever didn't have the same rights and treatment as everyone else.

:cry:
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:40 PM
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6. We will learn that lesson in our lifetimes
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:42 PM
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8. Wasting our lives on the internet..
by focusing on a screen rather than walking outside and taking it all in.
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:45 PM
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12. Too funny
I just posted that
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_TJ_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:42 PM
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9. Eating Animals nt
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:44 PM
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10. I've thought about that
Technology may make it obsolete (usually a convenient route to a new ethic).
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4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:45 PM
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11. I agree
but I think we're a couple centuries away from that yet, sad to say...

david
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4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:46 PM
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13. Ignoring the environment
and the claims of "chicken little" scientists.

History will condemn us utterly for it.

david
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:48 PM
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14. Consumerism, really
As someone said earlier, the general short sighted attitude of Western culture.
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