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A LessWrong post argues that people judge past societies more harshly than their own because they focus on harms that people at the time were unaware of or did not think about.
Written by AI from LessWrong's published text.
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“We have a tendency to judge past societies more harshly than our own. That is partly because we tend to focus on the evils of past societies that many people at the time either weren’t aware of, or didn’t spend much time thinking about.”
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