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Originally Posted by : : Scott : :
Argh what, are you serious? Yeah humanity isn't progressive and all we have done is regress and go backwards since the the Dark ages. Free speech and emancipation have always existed and are not the result of progress. We have always been able to eradicate diseases like Polio with simple innoculations by understanding immunocompetence in humans. I peferred the Internet and free healthcare in 1452! I wish it wasn't illegal for someone to steal all my stuff and kill my family because laws and legal systems are the result of progression from barbarism and THERE IS NO PROGRESS.
Stop talking shite.
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Just define exactly just how humanity has 'progressed' then Scott mate? Do you mean that Britain, and the 'western' world has progressed? And is progression a good thing?
4000 years ago a laberour in Egypt would work some 10 hours a day, receive his food, lodgings, a large wage, the best medical care available at the time and a secure job for life in the service of his Pharaoh. Whats the unemployment rate like in Britain let alone so called developing countries in the year 2006?
What is so damn fantastic about the internet? Has humanity just survived miraculously without it for yaaay many thousands of years? Dont get me wrong, i appreciate it for what i use it for but it achieves nothing more than what we already had, exchanging information by word of mouth. And just like word of mouth the information we give one another can be easily falsified so that shoots down claims that 'it allows greater free speach'.
You talk about emancipation as if thats the end of slavery?
Is it fuck, aye, slavery thats obvious in the sense that theres no giant quarter past fuck off planations in the southern States of America, but what about the rest of the world or are we just neglecting countries were enforced child labour is a way of life?
Oh yes, we are so close to global peace and all that nonsense.
Back in the 'Dark Ages' a King or Warlord could send out his armies to attack his rivals and take their lands...oh yeah, a President or Prime minister or Dictator can do the same thing nowadays too! Only now thanks to Humanitys progression we can kill hundreds of thousands with weopons created as a deterant to the same damn weopons?
As for codes of law that prevent someone from killing you and stealing your stuff...just what the hell is it i read in the papers and see in the news everyday of the week man? Oh yeah...some innocent kid gets murdered in gang violence, a mother suffering post-natal depression drowns her newborn child, a madman with a grudge against the world takes out his anger on some Amish schoolgirls.
Dont insult my intelligence Scott. I respect you as a smart individual who more often than not makes some very good and valid comments on threads like these, but my god man, you can be a right insulting arse at times when someone disagrees with your point of veiw. Fair enough if you or anyone else disagrees with me, thats free speech for you...but lay off the insults where they arnt warrented. (especially for typos)
To everryone else i apologise, I realise this post has little or nothing to do with this topic.