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Traveler from the past: "What?! You let filthy lesser races marry your children? Gays aren't stoned in the streets? Why is that woman in a position of authority over men? Why is THAT woman not ashamed to be a single mother? Society has collapsed into a disgusting moral cesspool!"
If you want to see how people from the past might look at our "moral progress", ask your racist grandma.
If travelers from the past have outraged reactions, it's because they're running the social software of their time, not because they have genuinely considered all of the pros and cons of slavery in both their home context and ours. Intelligence is largely about knowing the "right" things to say and then saying them automatically so as to not jeopardize your share of resources.
Why doesn't that apply equally well to the traveler from our time?
It definitely does.