Samantha Matney, Aylor

ELON: YOU SHOULD JUDGE HISTORY BASED ON THE STANDARDS AT THE TIME “If you judge history from what is morally acceptable today, you basically are going to give everyone a failing grade. I don't think anyone would get a passing grade in their morality if you go back 300 years ago. Who is getting a passing grade? Basically no one. If one is going to judge, say, the British Empire, you've got to judge what everyone was doing at the time and how were the British relative to everyone. And I think, the British would actually get a relatively good grade. Not in absolute terms, but compared to what everyone else was doing. They were not the worst. You’ve got to look at these things in the context of the history at the time and say, what were the alternatives and what are you comparing it against.” Source: Lex Fridman Podcast, December 2021