On the contrary, I am convinced many taboos that persisted for millenia had very practical reasons. The world has changed dramatically since the industrialization. Therefore many reasons don't apply anymore. But that doesn't change the value propositions of those taboos in the dark age or the stone age.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've already been doing it repeatedly with this account. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
Religious flamewar, btw, is particularly off topic here and especially easy to avoid starting.
On the contrary, I am convinced many taboos that persisted for millenia had very practical reasons. The world has changed dramatically since the industrialization. Therefore many reasons don't apply anymore. But that doesn't change the value propositions of those taboos in the dark age or the stone age.
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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've already been doing it repeatedly with this account. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
Religious flamewar, btw, is particularly off topic here and especially easy to avoid starting.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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