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Originally Posted by randilover
I do think this past one was worse, but even if not, would it not have stood that we would have gotten better, not worse. What those previous generations did was never drawn from the logical framework that this past century did. Although some of what you mention above was started under the guise of religion, the greatest perpetrators of violence this past century were done by mostly secular ideals. True, the mechanics were much more suited for mass killing, but there are societies that exist (namely, your and ours) that had just as much that were held back from those types of occurrances.
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I don't think Hitlet, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, etc were great students of modern philosophy. They were nutbags who perverted a philisophical ideal to suit their personal abition, and trampled those who stood in their way. They are not representative of the advancements that have been made.