What might be the case, but we can't know, is that there are problems that we are similarly unaware of.
This dilemma is not restricted solely to the pursuit of scientific, empirical conclusions. It also bedevils moral reasoning. It makes challenging the justification of your long dead heroes. They're all slave owners and mass murderers and wife beaters and rabid anti-Semites, right?
Attitudes and actions presently deemed intolerable: Are they excused (or explained) by so-called "prevailing standards"?
Even in Jefferson's day, sound minds proffered excellent and logical objections to slavery. Jefferson knew these objections. How then can we hail him, this possessor and driver of human flesh? Ah, context, and so on.
Is that it? Is all right and wrong reducible to mis-en-scene?
The dilemma Freddie suggests frustrates an interest in How Things Are, but it absolutely shatters an interest in How Things Should Be.
What if our children's children see us as monsters? "Mom, why doesn't grandpop understand my love for Joe? So what if he's cyber? He's my one, my only! Why can't the old bastard get it"
Mm?
A student of history understands life to be the gradual repudiation of most everything you think real and right and relevant. Ah well.
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