fubarobfusco comments on Open thread, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ZankerH 27 October 2014 01:39:03PM 2 points [-]
  • Technological progress and social/political progress are loosely correlated at best

  • Compared to technological progress, there has been little or no social/political progress since the mid-18th century - if anything, there has been a regression

  • There is no such thing as moral progress, only people in charge of enforcing present moral norms selectively evaluating past moral norms as wrong because they disagree with present moral norms

Comment author: fubarobfusco 28 October 2014 04:06:02AM *  1 point [-]

How do you square your beliefs with (for instance) the decline in murder in the Western world — see, e.g. Eisner, Long-Term Historical Trends in Violent Crime?