Conservatives argue that we are unlikely, we moderns, to make any brave new discoveries in morals or politics or taste. It is perilous to weigh every passing issue on the basis of private judgment and private rationality.
HUmans haven't change musch in the last 10K years, yet the world taht we live in has, seeing that while useful to look at the history of humanity, progress needs to happen to take intpo account new things, history is not the fountain of all knowledge, rather like Nehrue's boat, we patch and change things as the boat developes new leaks
