Today's post, Whither Moral Progress? was originally published on 16 July 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Does moral progress actually happen? And if it does so, how?
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"The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson.
Morals ("free speech, democracy, mass street protests against wars, the end of slavery... and we could also cite female suffrage, or the fact that burning a cat alive was once a popular entertainment... and many other things that our ancestors believed were right, but which we have come to see as wrong, or vice versa") are also not very evenly distributed. Statements about moral progress are premature.