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itmag on Feb 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing

It makes me wonder who they'll be pardoning in 50 years time from now. Assange, Manning, David Kelly, McKinnon etc.

You're assuming that history is a linear ascent toward ever higher morality. What if it goes the other way?

bwarp on Feb 6, 2012 [–]

That's a very fair point. Thinking about it, the morality inclines for a bit after a war, then declines as another appears. Well that's my perception anyway.

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