evolving social ideal

What ultimately determines rights and wrongs… all of our rules are a combination of law and the social ideal. And that’s always all over the map. Once upon a time, the law and social ideal said that blacks should be slaves and women shouldn’t vote.

– Ron MacLean

Quoted from The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos Video Podcast February 11 2009



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