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Ärende: Re: OT: Finesse contest finalists - thanks to all!
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"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:03:50 -0500, "Carl" <cengman7@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"AaronJB" <aaronjb@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> On Apr 21, 6:48 pm, "Carl" <cengm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The most disturbing part of that is that people like to get vile and
>>>> demeaning at all.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I'm just jaded and cynical beyond my years, but to me that
>>> just sums up most of human nature - and certainly a large section of
>>> the population as a whole.
>>>
>>> We are, after all, little but violent aggressive apes who've learned
>>> how to use tools - and just look at the multitude of weapons we've
>>> invented to use with our opposable thumbs.
>>>
>>
>>Hmmm.
>>
>>Technological advances are often mistaken as a measure of how our species
>>has advanced.
>>
>>Is there any reason to believ that people have gotten better over time? 
>>Are
>>people better now than they were ... 100 years ago? 1000 years ago?
>>
>>Is there any reason to believe that people will get better over time?
>
> By what criteria? If we're talking a Christian or golden rule one, I
> like to think we have.

Why do you think that we have?

> But moral criteria change with time and place,
> and it's not always easy to establish a basis for comparison. Forex, I
> read somewhere that the distribution of wealth in this country is now
> as lopsided as it was in the 1920's.

I've read to the contrary, with more people becoming millionaires
and more people moving to upper income brackets in the last 10
years than ever before.

Home ownership is at an all time high, and even those defined as "poor"
can in no way be equated with what was poor in the 1920's.

Income inequality is not inherently good or bad either.

Wealth is a poor standard for judging good and evil.
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