PhilosophyMemes

Morality, like history, is but a fable agreed upon.

And rarely agreed upon.

That being said, people who clamor about not judging the past also need to take into account that, if we are regarding their acts to be 'fair' by the standards of their day, we must also account applying our own standards in judgement to be equally fair.

I tend to take a middle ground (yeah, I know, wimp's way out) that while the actions of individuals remain just or unjust according to my moral standards, that historical individuals themselves should be judged by how close relative to the rest of their society they meet my standard. Especially since we, as human beings, largely form our morality according to our environment, as innumerable (and sometimes bizarre) popularly accepted cultural standards for moral behavior show.