I could see this.Mister Imperceptible wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 9:15 pmI of course can’t speak for ERE, but I always personally favored the Spartan “leave the defective baby on the hillside” approach.
You see Simba, when we die, our bodies become….grass, and the antelope eat the grass….
Trigger-warning since this will rile up a severe Blue reaction because of the abortion issue in the US and southern Europe and I do not wish to restart a culture war on this issue: But Denmark and a few other northern European countries have almost if not completely "eliminated" Down's Syndrome which is a heritable condition which is testable during pregnancy, and most choose abortion. As such the causative gene strains are dying out. People born with DS are not shunned and are in fact being included in society in every way possible, but their DNA is not by virtue of the state "raising awareness" and giving the option to everybody---it's part of standard screening and most parents choose to abort. Because of this, DK's specific birthrate of DS children is 0.03% whereas in the US it is 0.16% or 5-6 times higher. In the US this would require, pardon the expression as I insult several additional religions, goring some really sacred cows, whereas in DK those cows are long dead. Thus it basically comes down to what form "the sacred" takes ... and that form evolves. And that is a slow process.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... me/616928/
The Spartan way would of course be the Red way of doing it. This was also the Viking way. It was considered an act of mercy. It wasn't that [Red] people were cold and heartless. It was just a very different value set from the Blue or Blue-tinted Red or Orange. Tears were spilled but it was believed to be the right (good) solution to a difficult problem.
In any case, my point is that we should absolutely not presume that our sacred beliefs will be the same 200 years from now just as ours are not those of our ancestors (<- a Green statement). However, some sacred beliefs are definitely better at solving the problems created by a given environment (and we're rapidly changing ours, thanks Orange) than others (<- a Yellow statement).