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Originally Posted by starseed
I think that civilization does progress because do not live in a perfect society, and we will always try to make our society perfect. We invented the idea of 'human rights' and we are still trying to understand what that means, and how important they are. Can 'human rights' trump 'cultural rights'?
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It clearly doesn't progress at all. You can read about far more enlightened individuals, such as Socrates, Cicero,and Aristophanes, that lived over 2000 years ago.
Don't confuse ideological baffle-gab and technical prowess with "progress."