We are now at the point, in intellectual Meccas like Boston, where they ask questions like Whether Chimps Should Have Human Rights:
It is clear then from this that these thinkers are also willing to attribute mens rea to simians for the purposes of attaching criminal responsibility, and various mental requirements for civil liability for their actions as well.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
DECLINE OF THE WEST GENERATIONAL CALCULATION
The West declined enormously, in relative terms, in only a hundred years, 1850 to 1950, only the span of say 5 generations.
They weren't cyclical generational movements: they were down, down, down, down, down.
The biggest winners were Orthodoxy, Shinto, Confucian, Hinduism, and Islam.
The biggest winners were Orthodoxy, Shinto, Confucian, Hinduism, and Islam.
1950 to now, another period of just over 3 generations, an even greater, precipitous, drop, in relative terms.
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