Posts made by Cocoxxjumbo V

@maddragon It's a correct belief. No further elaboration needed.

@sammy I think you'll find that almost any society before 1850 was brutishly inhumane by today's standards.

The UN has a number of "human rights violation" standards that they hold every nation to in the modern age. I doubt many, if any, countries from before 1850 would pass these standards.

Capital punishment, imprisonment without fair trial, cruel and unusual punishment, rule without consent of the governed, slavery, spousal rape, war crimes, etc were commonplace 200 years ago.

@anoj117 Humans have been around for 195,000 years.

Go back in time just 195 years and try to get clean water out of a pipe in your kitchen. Try to find expert medical attention for the chickenpox that you just contracted. Try to go down to the corner market and find fresh fruit year round that doesn't sour within days of being picked. Try to find some descent birth control. Try to be able to have sex without immediately starting a family.

Try to find some indoor plumbing!

Furthermore, go back 195 years in America and try to be gay. Or black. Or a woman.

And then come back and ask me whether we've gotten better as a species.