[processing please hold]

This is somewhat in the same vein of a thread I was on last night. I believe cyborg was on it too, but don't hold me to that.

It was about Strom Thurman. I said he was a man of his times and can't be judged by todays standards. Man, did I take a kicking on that thread.

I didn't approve of what he did, but no matter how I tried to explain that statement, I found myself deeper and deeper in a hole.

Some of yesterdays actions, can't be judged today.

The future will have to look at our actions today, and judge them by todays standards.

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "The future will have to look at our actions today, and judge them by todays standards."

I have to disagree but then I subscribe to a universal and timeless truth. I think it is presumptive of the people today to look at the past and pronounce them innocent by way of ignorance, "they don't know no better". That may work for things such as medical treatments based on faulty understanding of illness but to operate on the notion that common decency toward your fellow man is beyond their comprehension is an error. Man in the past (and you can go back as far as you wish) had a capacity for sophistication that would be equal to any one alive today. Consider Plato or Cato, Dante or Shakespeare. They make anyone today pale at the thought of going up against them on human relationships and interaction. The Bible makes Freud or Jung look like rank armatures, because they are. It is one thing to see the past as inferior in some areas of Science but they are just as good at rationalizing and intellectualizing their mistreatment of their fellow man as anyone in the sex industry, or abortion mills, or exploitation of immigrants, or genetic experimentation. Monsters all and truth be told would get along quite with well with any brutal slave holder.