When I was younger and learned about how cruel ancient civilizations could be (child sacrifice, etc), I would think “thank goodness we have evolved”. I don’t believe that anymore. Ancient civilizations would sacrifice babies, virgins, slaves... in ignorance to a god for hopes of safety, better crops etc. We know the damage being done. We know that a fetus has a beating heart. We know that children suffer horribly (and for the rest of their lives) as a result of physical abuse/sexual abuse. The only true difference is we now seem to focus entirely on the needs of the perpetrator. We now label babies as “baggage” and children are offered to sickos each and every day. The media exploits this as well. Watch all sorts of movies/television shows and what do you see? Children being shown as “sexual” and teen characters taking care of their “little problem” by a simple visit to the abortion clinic. Nope, Butterdezillion, we haven’t evolved as a species at all.
My 11-year-old daughter was asking me what was going on at Penn State, that they were talking about when we listened to the NE-Penn State football game. So after the game we had a long talk that covered a lot of different topics. The subject of exploitation was one - and included a discussion of rape, child abuse, and abortion, and how they are interrelated. We also talked about coping mechanisms and how abortive women are both perpetrators and victims - as are (so often) abused children who grow up to abuse their own children, children who are sodomized who go on to sodomize others, etc.
We human beings are so easily trapped. No, we haven’t evolved at all. We are still the same vulnerable, easily-warped people we’ve always been. And the more we try to pretend otherwise, the more the society as a whole is suckered into believing our own lies and justifications.
But just let the power go out for a year or two, and we will be right back in the jungle of warlords, chattel slavery, sexual slavery, torture for pleasure, etc.
It's a very thin thread holding our civilization intact.