When making historical comparisons, it's often overlooked that moral values evolve—emancipation, gender equality, and similar shifts. Values cannot simply be applied backward.
When making historical comparisons, it's often overlooked that moral values evolve—emancipation, gender equality, and similar shifts. Values cannot simply be applied backward.
They also cannot be forced forward; conceptions of the value of human life have changed. The loss of 100,000 Palestinian lives today carries a different moral weight than a comparable toll in an earlier century