In a value system that holds that it is good for civilization to progress, any act that hinders civilizationās progress is a sin.
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- Crimes Against Humanity
- This idea implicitly assumes that humans are more precious than other
- It is not obvious that if some people commit acts that undermine civilization, we should respect them or not.
- For example, ākilling an ideaā is more casually and frequently done today than ākilling a human being.ā
- Of course, people today recognize that ākilling humansā is a bad idea.
- When people were being casually killed, they didnāt think killing humans was as bad as it is now.
- What we are casually doing now to ākill an ideaā may be an act of barbarism that is out of the ordinary in the eyes of future generations.
- It is not self-evident whether the act of an idea being killed by āethicsā, which is only a value at the present time, is different from the act of a human being being killed by the idea that a certain race is superior at a certain point in time.
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