Re:A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook
by chongli on Thursday November 22, 2018 @05:00PM
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Historically, famine was commonplace. We make a big deal about it now, but from what I gather, The Irish Potato Famine is remembered ironically in part because it was kind of one of the last big famines in Europe. Before that, famine wasn't even newsworthy.
Famine and disease are not a good comparison for sexism. Yes, we want to eradicate both, but there's a difference:
Technology can give us new vaccines and increase our crop yields. It can't change human nature.
That's all there is to it. Even if we were able to change people to make them incapable of sexism we would not have changed human nature, we would only have robbed them of their free will (and thus their human nature).
Without the ability to do evil, you can't be good.
Famine and disease are not a good comparison for sexism. Yes, we want to eradicate both, but there's a difference:
Technology can give us new vaccines and increase our crop yields. It can't change human nature.
That's all there is to it. Even if we were able to change people to make them incapable of sexism we would not have changed human nature, we would only have robbed them of their free will (and thus their human nature).
Without the ability to do evil, you can't be good.