Sometimes desire distorts perception

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Schrodinger's Cat

What's so great about the ethical views of the last two centuries? Let's see... Slavery, concentration camps, Watergate, 9/11, the atomic bomb...

None of that stuff is new in terms of mindset, just (in the case of the bomb) in magnitude. In any case, wolf's the one who chose the cutoff point.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by Schrodinger's Cat

...I'll take the hunter-gathers. At least the destruction was limited in their era (ie a few dozen or at very most, a few hundred).

...depending, of course, on the particular statistical method used to quantify the estimate.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

In any case, wolf's the one who chose the cutoff point.

Aribtrarily.

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Originally Posted by Beestie

...depending, of course, on the particular statistical method used to quantify the estimate.

You didn't hear it from me, but I understand that Heisenberg and Tommy Franks are new best friends!