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Originally Posted by Rekrul
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Mankind hasn't started to shift towards a different way of thinking, it's always been this way. The more generations between an event and present day, the more people are desensitized to it. After long enough all the death and suffering is meaningless bc we're so far removed from it, and it hasn't directly touched our lives or the lives of anyone we know.
You're the opposite of a forward thinker, you think exactly the same way any narrow-minded, uneducated, self-absorbed toolbag would.
Please, tell us more about the consensus of mankind.
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In psychology, desensitization is defined as the diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposure to it. It also occurs when an emotional response is repeatedly evoked in situations in which the action tendency that is associated with the emotion proves irrelevant or unnecessary.
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If you're going to try and say that desensitization is the culprit behind this, and describing how people like myself have separated ourselves from the crimes of past generations, then learn what desensitization is. Have you been repeatedly exposed to people being slaughtered due to their religious beliefs? Do you live in some southern state that still treats african-americans like indentured servants? Are you having some image of a master human race being shoved down your throat? I seriously doubt you in your lifetime have seen so much of these events that you've become desensitized to it.
We are still sensitive to what they did, but we are also not in any way responsible for what they did. Similarly we are not responsible for past generations who participated in the slave trade. Psychological separation from things that hold us back from moving on as humans is essential to civilization to move forward. Things like holding onto events like the Holocaust, the slave trade, crucifying christ, etc...only hold back human civilization. If you can look at it and understand what happened, learn why it was wrong and move on while keeping with that understanding...then you've made progress.