Whatever, it's only month three, not too late.
Notice that your ability to label things with a strong moral charge refers to a handful of historical events from the past 200 years. Everything before that gets really fuzzy, is multi-faceted, and doesn’t evoke emotion.
Put a bow on this for me.
1) are they on the wrong or right side of history? 2) would anyone in 2025 have their moral sensibilities hurt?
Or stated another way, the premise implied by your question is incorrect. Its perfectly possible that both England and France were on the wrong side of history.
And once again, not me the absence of emotion. Saying “they’re both right” or “they’re both wrong” elicits nothing.
Your rules:
1) I cannot use my sensibility to look at the last 200 years (huh? okay.)
2) I need to now make sense of geopolitical beef between England and France around 1300.
3) Then I need to tie this all back to how this all leads to not be being able to determine, morally, what's going on today.
Are these the rules to becoming the pokemon master in your gym? I'll continue if I have all the rules down. I'm excited to attend your world class mental gym and get the greatest of all mental gymnastics training.
Absolute monarchy was worse than systems that shared power with an aristocracy which in turn was worse than restricted democracy which was worse than universal suffrage.
Feudalism was worse than capitalism which in turn was worse than the results of the labor movement.
Forced conversion was worse than religious discrimination which in turn was worse than religious freedom.
That’s not true. In aristotle’s politics he explores the major forms of government of which demagoguery is a corruption of democracy. And he gives examples.
and what do you mean by better? Do you claim that Every democracy that’s ever existed functions better than every aristocracy in fulfilling its governing role? Better for who in and what regard?
> capitalism and fuedalism
There are absolutely no tradeoffs between feudalism and capitalism? Capitalism is an absolute good in comparison?
And you’re only highlighting the major movements it the progressive narrative and ignored all the twists and turns. Was Catholicism better than Protestantism? What about agrarian hunter/gatherer vs capitalism?