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Comment author: timtyler 10 December 2011 02:30:07AM *  1 point [-]

I think there's good evidence against moral progress. Take any example somebody would give of moral progress and you can generally find another society or another era where the same, or at least similar, values were held.

...right - but go back a bit further and lots of our ancestors were cannibals who bashed each other's skulls in and ate their brains in victory celebrations. Moral progress is pretty obvious too.