QnA/questions about social movements/Jeong Hyeonsu

Is our modern world more peaceful than the past?
Can we think of some examples-or contradictions?


Steven pinker
I agree with his argument. As he said in the lecture, in the past, the standard of people feeling brutality was higher than that. Not only did the death penalty happen frequently, but it was also developed to make the death penalty brutality. Moreover, there was also a lack of tolerance for differences. People hated people who those differences like now, this combined with savagery and resulted in terrible consequences. In 1954, gay in the United States being imprisoned often because he is gay. Sending love letter or sex with the same-sex partner, they were punished by sodomy laws just to have sex with.

What are some of the issues that modern Korean social movements are concerned about? 

(Please name the movements in your comments.)


There is a social movement to abolish abortion in South Korea, now. A ' black demonstration ' was held regularly for the abolition of abortion and There were various movements, such as pictures and hash tag movements, under the slogan ' If abortion is a sin, the criminal is a country.' As a result of the various social movements of civic groups and civilians, the government acknowledged that it would recognize the issue of abortion and resume the investigation of abortion on November 26, 2017.

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