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8 Post author: Froolow 30 July 2014 09:45AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 01 August 2014 03:34:36PM 1 point [-]

there was less change in the 1930's than most people realize.

That's a VERY low bar :-)

No, the moral compass in Germany in the 1930s did not rotate 180 degrees -- for that you usually need to kill a lot of people (see bolsheviks and such). But your scenario with which you started was transhumanism -- it does not require major surgery on the society's moral compass either. The magnitude of change is probably comparable to what Germany did in the 30s...