sp - // As reprehensible as you find Saville and what he is alleged to have done, do you see how the same could be felt by those who protest the statues?
Not those who are destroying by force - but those who have an issue with them? //
No, I can't see that because I understand how history works.
Historically, people acted in a way that we find morally unacceptable, but I accept that that was how their world operated then, it was legal and acceptable to behave that way.
For me to put my 2020 view on their 1820 behaviour is utterly bizarre, it has no basis in reality whatsoever.
A better example would be, imagine a totally vegan world in two hundred years from now.
It would be incomprehensible to people born then that we as a society bred and raised animals purely to kill and eat them, but that is what we do now, it is legal and acceptable to the vast number of people on the planet.
Two hundred years hence, people may think that is horrible and wrong, but it wasn't at the time, and you cannot change history, you can simply learn from it, because it makes you who you are, whatever time and society you are born into.