bungeejumper wrote:XFool wrote:What I was asking was not so much "Is this silly" (I think it is) as, how much, if at all, does it really matter to our society if we continue doing these kind of things?
So, let me see. It's been 215 years since we abolished slavery, and 300 or so since we stopped burning people alive for witchcraft.
Quite rightly, we don't whitewash the memory of the former atrocity. So maybe it's not so illogical that we don't write off the latter as just a colourful whimsy?
Indeed not. The suggestion to erect a monument to commemorate the fate of the witches would be fine by me. But, unlike the 'apology', that would be a real decision, made by us in our time. One that would have a real outcome for us in our time, which is related to our past. Who can speak against that?
bungeejumper wrote:Whoops, this is in danger of falling into seriousness.
Nothing wrong with that - if it matters.