Friday, November 4, 2011

Should We Judge The Past By The Standards Of It's Time, Or By The Standards Of Our Time? Explain.

    It depends on the situation. If the situation was a bad one, then we could learn from it. The thing is, I don't think we can judge them. We can't possibly think like the people did years and years ago because we were not in their situation. And if we were in a situation even fairly similar to it, we still couldn't imagine the decisions they made during their situation. I don't think you can judge people by what they did in the past. If you were to put yourself in their shoes, I bet you would make the same choices they did. But I also still think that if the situation was bad like...say we were judging slavery. I think its wrong what they did to the African Americans and basically used them as mules. See, I'm judging the white slave owners on how they treated the African Americans. Like I said, it just depends on the situation and how you look at it.

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