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Are We Better People Than Slave Owners In The 1700s? Have We Had A Moral Awakening Since The Age Of Colonialism? How Are We To Reconcile The Injustices Of The Past In A Present Still Littered With The Residue Of Those Indignities? Can Old Moral Infractions Ever Be Adequately And Safely Acknowledged? Are Questions Of Morality Perpetually Stuck In A Tug Of War, With The Concept Of Uncompromised Universal Principles Yanking Against The Agnostic Utilitarian Policies Which Aim To Maximize Flourishing While Each Side Takes Turns Angrily Charging The Other With Hypocrisy? And What Do We Really Mean When We Insist That We Are On The Right Side Of History Anyway? This Book Serves As A Philosophical Examination Of These Questions, Presented In A Playful And Accessible Style. By Tapping Into Fascinating Historical And Contemporary Anecdotes-from The Nightmares Of 16th-century Bolivian Silver Mine Slave Revolts To Sam Bankman-fried's Strained Role In The Effective Altruism Movement-i Build My Case Effectively And Engagingly. I Diagnose Our Undeniable Civilizational Moment Of Historical Reckoning And Uncover The True Political Fault Lines Poised To Fracture Our Assumed Philosophical And Global Structures, For Better Or Worse. These Cracks Are Increasingly Deepening, With Overlapping Quakes Of History And Violence Sending Tremors Through Clanging Conflicts In The Middle East, Africa, Russia, China, And Now The Political Halls Of Europe And America. By Weaving Together The Little-discussed Theories Of Cognitive Dissonance With The Easy-to-understand And Ubiquitous Moral Frameworks Of Deontology And Consequentialism, I Provide A Novel Examination. Incorporating Personal And Vulnerable Reflections On My Moral Behavior And Designing Fun And Revealing Scenarios With Mental Trips In My Moral Time Machine To Both Well-known And Scarcely Documented Epochs, I Synthesize These Tantalizing Questions Into A Bold Positive Thesis. Judging History Is A Humanist Call To Trust Ourselves In The Fa