> Historically correct but do we need to tell that part of the story going forward?
Yes. Hiding the truth is almost always wrong.
Yes. Hiding the truth is almost always wrong.
The truth is humans behaved as they needed to survive given the world at the time. The rest is analogy and metaphor handed down as song and story. We can never know truth just speculate.
It can be in books but to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, we must update our society as our experience reveals new truth.
Am I under an obligation to discuss Jesus and Roman Empires to educate my kids why we goto a grocery store and why it’s bad to hate on others? Or repeat the Founders when we vote?
Can’t we simply do as we do, justify it as we need to today, without uttering the names of the dead?
I.e. moral principles such as equality and some basic rights result in a safer and more productive society for the vast majority of people, vs. alternate principles.
They are less arbitrary principles than saying this group of people is better than another group, and results in a society with greater productivity and resiliancy than one where the strong continually put down the weak.
The history is still meaningful, but is not the rationale.
They are related, but certainly the latter can be talked of coherently separately - if one chooses.
Equality can be argued for in terms of economics, game theory, the objective recognition of commonality between humans, and from many other avenues, without reference to religion.
Literally none of that makes any sense. Within the system of human dynamics, nothing within that system can place an a priori restraint on the "right" rules for the system's existence, and it is literally impossible to talk about anything objective from within an intersubjective system. You're running up against Godel.
It’s literally impossible for us to be where are without history as it was. It’s not an obligation for us to keep making kids aware Thomas Jefferson existed.