"Dwarfs Honored in Ancient Egypt"
Look, it's an early front-runner for best headline of the year!
One note about the article. This quote bugs me: "Ancient Egyptian society had a strong code of ethics and commandments to be respectful towards dwarfs, the crippled and blind." Maybe it's just me, but I sense some finger-wagging by the reporter because our society is not like that of Ancient Egypt. Stories of this type often have a little drop in like that: after all, there was no reason to include the crippled and blind in that sentence. I mean, so what if the Egyptians were better than us in this one small way. They also kept slaves, worshipped their leaders as gods, and married their sisters.
It's called perspective.
One note about the article. This quote bugs me: "Ancient Egyptian society had a strong code of ethics and commandments to be respectful towards dwarfs, the crippled and blind." Maybe it's just me, but I sense some finger-wagging by the reporter because our society is not like that of Ancient Egypt. Stories of this type often have a little drop in like that: after all, there was no reason to include the crippled and blind in that sentence. I mean, so what if the Egyptians were better than us in this one small way. They also kept slaves, worshipped their leaders as gods, and married their sisters.
It's called perspective.
posted by Unknown at 6:55 PM
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