Difference between revisions of "426--Week 12 Questions/Comments--Tuesday"
From McClurken Wiki
(→Perdue Article) |
(→Perdue Article) |
||
| Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
I don't think that you are either ethnocentric or too ethical, Celia. The infanticide bothered me too, but it has not been uncommon in human history, the Spartans were particularly well known for it. And in some respects I think that it is not entirely unrelated to modern birth control or abortions. If you really think about it, they just waited longer to do it. Again, that's not to say that I agreed with it, in fact it really squicked me out. You just have to look at the fact that we haven't really come that far in the last 100-200 years, we just made it seem more "civilized." -Lacey | I don't think that you are either ethnocentric or too ethical, Celia. The infanticide bothered me too, but it has not been uncommon in human history, the Spartans were particularly well known for it. And in some respects I think that it is not entirely unrelated to modern birth control or abortions. If you really think about it, they just waited longer to do it. Again, that's not to say that I agreed with it, in fact it really squicked me out. You just have to look at the fact that we haven't really come that far in the last 100-200 years, we just made it seem more "civilized." -Lacey | ||
| + | |||
| + | I agree with sarah and celia as well regarding infanticide. It reminds me of the modern debate over a woman’s “right” to abortion. –Andrew B | ||
==Adams Article== | ==Adams Article== | ||
