Judging History (branch off from election thread)

[ICantSpellDawg]

The point of history is to learn from your mistakes. There's no shame in admitting that our fore-fathers lived in a less enlightened age, but its important to remember that we're not perfect either. People who seek to gloss over the past also tend to think that the present is quite dandy. In reality, we've a lot of work to do yet.

I don't mind people who are racist and sexist. I disagree with them - let the best argument win. We are just apes in suits trying to live our lives, people can do, say, or think anything they'd like but they have to live with the consequences and compare their choices to history and empirical observation. Nothing is perfect and I'm not working towards perfection, so I don't mind when others get things really wrong. We live we die, try not to get too worked up about it.