The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that theres nothing wrong with being gay. I dont find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.
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