Originally Posted by
exerda
(emphasis mine)
I should hope not, besides the self-destructive notions of some "compassionate" conservatives today. One would think that notions of equality and respect will not come to be supplanted by something else, for I don't have to invoke even remotely false dichotomies to see that the alternatives are not desirable.
I completely agree with law dawg on that point, fwiw.
Human history has repeatedly proven that humans will constantly develop to a point that many things taken for granted as being necessary, moral, etc. just a few centuries earlier will make most people of a given time cringe.
I believe statism, a cousin of slavery grounded in the same ideas and defended with many of the exact same arguments, will provoke the same reaction in humans 2-3 centuries from now that slavery produces in most people of our time (at least in the West).