Comment on Beans

• xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because change is costly and therefore a risk. When it seems that resources are scarce, risks are dangerous, and it can seem rational to destroy ideas that cost more resources, lest your imagined model of society collapse for lack of resources as the idea takes over.

  It’s always conservatism, in other words.

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  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Let’s not take the religious aspects out of it though.

    The church said earth was the center so saying the sun was the center was going against the church which was blasphemy. Blasphemy punishable by lifelong imprisonment or death.

    Likely both as dungeons weren’t exactly life friendly.

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• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because many considered and change to be an affront to Gods will. So they killed free-thinkers to prove God infallible

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because they challenged the notion that mankind is the center of and purpose for the universe.

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