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coola:
man slavery back in the days would have been fucked up !

and imagine that, imagine if in this day in age, you invite some friends over, and youre like "oh dont mind him he's just our slave" WTF ? crazy shit...

and if a slave had children, the child would also become the property of the master... that would be fucked up being born into slavery.. man we were some savages back in the days..

Trauma-san:
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.  I think we often underestimate, though, the power of the culture we live in.  It seems crazy to us because of our culture, but back then, that was how things were done.  We do things now, that in the future will seem crazy.


One thing I always notice is how we treat fags.  It is basically a.o.k. to ridicule homosexuals... in the future, that will be looked at as unbelievably unfair. 

Also women still aren't considered equals.  In some aspects things will always be different, because men and women are different by birth... but there are a lot of things like how for instance we haven't had a female president, etc.  that in the future we'll all be looked at as neanderthals. 

So when you look back, yeah, slavery looks insane, but to them it probably was just part of life and nobody realized how ludicrious it was. 

Teddy Roosevelt:
^^That's some real shit that your saying Trauma. It just seems rediclous because of how we live. Back then a lot of the shit we see has terrible wasn't even thought about back then. However, doing something like beating a slave to death can't just be wavied of becuase of the environment you live in. At what point do your own thoughts, morals, and free will have to come to play? This is a question I've been trting to figure out for a while.

coola:
^ i think we as a society are on the right path now... but there are still alot of loose ends, and alot of bullshit going on... but all in all, i believe were on a good path..

Trauma-san:
Yup, I agree.  People bitch about the world, I think we're better than we were and each mornings better than the last.  Easy for me to say living in the greatest country in the world, but things are generally trending towards great.

I think you can even see it in the past 15 years.  Remember the early 90's and how everybody thought race wars were going to break out over Rodney King and O.J. and shit? I can't even really imagine that now, it seems like blacks and whites are getting along better than ever.  If you think about it, the civil rights movement was in the 60's, 25 years later was rodney king, and it's already been 15 years since that.  That is progress, right there in OUR LIVES towards peace and a good future.  We're living history. 

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