I was trying to think of things the future can look down on us for, but I can only come up with:
* Polluting the environment.
* Allowing people to day of easily curable diseases.
Seems like thinking outside of our own times is really hard.
* Polluting the environment.
* Allowing people to day of easily curable diseases.
Seems like thinking outside of our own times is really hard.
* Drug prohibition
...always immediately jump out at me; I'm sure there are many, many others.
Their hypothesis on when something is surely to be condemned in the future requires universal lack of moral defensibility. Right now, the detractors on both of these issues are still claiming they are speaking from morality, so the article didn't list them.
That said, I agree with you. The article, however, implies that these issues are not yet inevitably going to be looked down on in the future. (whew, run on sentence much?)
I suppose even the most controversial 'serious' issues, aren't unanimously agreed upon as a problem by all .. the way we view history will probably vary widely from the course that we assume we're travelling along.