On 1/26/2018 12:17 PM, Broce wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:53:38 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, January 26, 2018 at 2:56:54 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>>
>>> Not necessarily. Do we judge people in the past badly for their
>>> habits? Not really. They did what they could and had to do back
>>> then.
>>>
>>> I remember an old Star Trek show where they traveled back in time
>>> to 20th century Earth. They were in a hospital and Dr.McCoy
>>> (Bones) was horrified at how doctors were treating medical
>>> problems. He said, "My God, Jim! These doctors are butchers!"
>>
>> We will be judged by future generations. They will be surprised that we used to operate our own cars and that it killed about 100 people a day in the US. Of course, people won't be driving their own starships in the future. That's just a dramatic device used in scifi shows.
>>
>> In a hundred years they may see our medical treatments as crude and ineffective in the same way that we view medicine a century ago.
>
> You're stating the obvious. You may sit down.
>

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