ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: iwdw 07 December 2011 06:32:57PM *  -1 points [-]

… every culture in history, in every time and every place, has operated from the assumption that it had it 95% correct and that the other 5% would arrive in five years’ time! All were wrong! All were wrong, and we gaze back at their naivety with a faint sense of our own superiority.

-- Terence McKenna, Culture and Ideology are Not Your Friends

Comment author: ChristianKl 04 January 2013 03:57:45PM 0 points [-]

If you would ask members of the present US culture whether the legal way gays are treated is optimal I doubt you will get that answer.

One the one hand you have people who disagree with state laws that allow homosexual marriage. Some of them disagree with laws that forbid discrimination. On the other hand you do have people who would want equal marriage rights for homosexuals.

Neither side believes that their position will get cultural consensus in five years.

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