Re:Ripple fined for acting as a money services business with...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @07:28PM
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> There existed societies without slaves, and multi-cultural cities were everybody got along, milenia before the "Atlantic slave trade".
The first part is true, but irrelevant. 1776 is the point that was proposed in the post I was responding to as the peak of Western civilization.
(Whether "multicultural cities where everyone got along" can be anything but hyperbole for anything that has ever existed is another question, but also irrelevant.)
> So it's not a great example of something that "got better as things progressed".
It wasn't offered for that purpose. It was offered -- as the direct quoting of the claim about the 1776 peak that preceded it should have suggested -- to counter the idea that 1776 was the high point of Western civilization.
The first part is true, but irrelevant. 1776 is the point that was proposed in the post I was responding to as the peak of Western civilization.
(Whether "multicultural cities where everyone got along" can be anything but hyperbole for anything that has ever existed is another question, but also irrelevant.)
> So it's not a great example of something that "got better as things progressed".
It wasn't offered for that purpose. It was offered -- as the direct quoting of the claim about the 1776 peak that preceded it should have suggested -- to counter the idea that 1776 was the high point of Western civilization.