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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Feb 25 2004, 02:55 PM
Yes, I do.
In my lifetime (I'm breathing down on 51) I've seen major changes in the way society regards people.
I recall listening to the "grownups" on my Mom's side of the family fret about JFK "turning America over to the Pope", yet last election's inclusion of Lieberman as a candidate caused barely a ripple.
I'm old enough to recall the Mike AI/Carrie/et al of an earlier generation rant about the "liberalactivistjudges" who decided that seperate but equal was a crock of shit and that American citizenship wasn't a racial classification.
The academic distinction between "cultural norms" and "progress" seems to be an artificial (or academic, which is often the same thing  one.
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For some reason much of mankind's circle of empathy seems to get larger and larger even to the point of extending it to animals. Maybe some day we won't kill insects either. Maybe one day we'll have "People for the Ethical Treatment of Viruses".
But why?