cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agoIn the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down137
arrow-up1-27arrow-down1message-squareIn the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareXanderill@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoNot true. For example, people with epilepsy use to be considered demon possessed, and were sometimes executed. This happened for at least thousands of years. There’s a ridiculously long list of examples of how we have come far.
Not true. For example, people with epilepsy use to be considered demon possessed, and were sometimes executed. This happened for at least thousands of years. There’s a ridiculously long list of examples of how we have come far.