from one into the other. As for the position of women across history, it's but one part of the issue. If husbands are going to so brutalise their wives then they will in turn, together, raise children who are distorted by such a horrific home life.
It's as slow as nuclear decay, just on a human scale, and the results are just as insidious and deadly.
The mandate from biology is only new, newborn even when you compare it to things like sociology (which it comes from). It's also concerned with the human result as much as the physical result, something which the cattle trading, of our long history, has ignored.
It's confusing enough to most people to truly grasp the interwoven nature of community, health, and psychology. Add onto that the notion that all these things can be used to frame an ethical imperative, not only that but an imperative which runs contrary to so much entrenched thought. Small surprise it's taken 14000+ years since the invention of farming. |
