[Yorick]

Originally posted by ryaldin: It's taken humanity millenia to get to where it is today, but as social acceptance and education increases, so does the speed with which social change comes. Just look at the last two centuries, and it's possible to see the slow changes finally begin to come to fruition: racism has become archaic, out-dated and socially unacceptable. Rights for laborers, rights for women, rights for children and the handicapped. Yes, there are still hold-outs that will continue to stand by what 'pappy' has told them, but an overwhelming and constantly increasing majority of people have become, at the risk of destroying my argument with a foolish word, enlightened to social justice, or the lack thereof. Few people can find cause to object to social changes on a truly objective level; most people just have difficulty accepting the way in which the changes in the social stratification will affect what they believe, be it a religion, or a social code or a family practice. Given time, I believe that the changes will occur, despite or maybe because of the opposing sides in every argument.

One persons progress is anothers regress.

There is a huge case for the view that all our "advances" both technological and social, are regressions.