StoneGloves wrote: So it's probably quite wrong to subscribe to the myth of the noble savage.
I agree, but howling savages is equally wrong.
If we have people picketing a child's funeral to make the point it was a deity's punishment for there being gay people the most we can say is the ancients were a mixed bunch, like us.
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