Regarding the babies: They were buried. They weren’t incinerated. The people in charge didn’t sell their organs for transplants or dissection in anatomy classes—or for satanic rituals. They didn’t harvest adrenochrome or stem cells from them. These babies were buried inside the walls of a church yard—which back in the day was a pretty big deal if they were fetuses or unchristened.
The other children buried there may have been found dead in the streets or died unclaimed in orphanages, foundling homes, or workhouses.
Life—and death—were very different only forty years ago—and the hardships of life and death likely all but unrecognizable to us the further back in time we go. I don’t want to—and I won’t—condemn people of long ago for attempting to do the right thing while also following the customs and mores of the society in which they lived.
If you go back far enough, some of the people who buried these small bodies lived during times when abusing or ignoring children starving in the streets may not have been acceptable, but was tolerated regardless.
What they discovered in the cemetery was sad then and is still sad today. Can we accept that universal grief—and also figure out how to keep ourselves off the moral high ground of presentism?
Why condemn those who lived before us because their behavior and the reasoning that supported it doesn’t match our own?
Regarding the babies: They were buried. They weren’t incinerated. The people in charge didn’t sell their organs for transplants or dissection in anatomy classes—or for satanic rituals. They didn’t harvest adrenochrome or stem cells from them. These babies were buried inside the walls of a church yard—which back in the day was a pretty big deal if they were fetuses or unchristened.
The other children buried there may have been found dead in the streets or died unclaimed in orphanages, foundling homes, or workhouses.
Life—and death—were very different only forty years ago—and the hardships of life and death likely all but unrecognizable to us the further back in time we go. I don’t want to—and I won’t—condemn people of long ago for attempting to do the right thing while also following the customs and mores of the society in which they lived.
If you go back far enough, some of the people who buried these small bodies lived during times when abusing or ignoring children starving in the streets may not have been acceptable, but was tolerated regardless.
What they discovered in the cemetery was sad then and is still sad today. Can we accept that universal grief—and also figure out how to keep ourselves off the moral high ground of presentism?
Why condemn those who lived before us because their behavior and the reasoning that supported it doesn’t match our own?
Or we could start condemning lefttards using presentist arguments!
Have some shifting sand!
Interesting take. I have never thought of it that way but you might be correct.