Does the morality of society, on the whole, improve? It would be extremely naïve to answer with a straightforward “yes”: the 20^th and 21^st centuries have seen atrocities that more than match the most reprehensible of history’s offerings. But if we adjust the timescale to one far larger than that of centuries, and imagine instead the whole of human history, present, and future, then does the situation change? Or is humanity doomed, by its very nature, to stay at roughly the same moral level? [Read more →]