alt Hacker NewsWe used to burn women to death because they were accused of being witches. I don't think this was because there was a lot of reason and evidence when they were doing this.
I don't think it's unique to the people of today that people in groups do dumb emotional shit. That's kind of the point of Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger".
> We used to burn women to death because they were accused of being witches.
Not right before now though, right? You see how that's not an argument? Because I didn't say western society had indefinitely been that way before.