Then man kept other humans as slaves. That is evil. There is no question about this. People in his own time thought this was evil. He did it anyway. He was evil.
You say this mockingly, as if being a slave owner should not overshadow everything else you do in life.
Yes, it should. It absolutely should. Being a slave-owner is massively, grotesquely evil. It should be what you are remembered and rightly denounced for.
> Particularly when you use today's more sensitive moral yardstick to measure yesterday's actions!
Considering slave-owning to be morally wrong is not a modern invention. It was considered wrong at the time too, just not by those who were profiting off it.
For instance, I don't think you'd find many slave who did not think it was evil.
You do not know that. All available evidence points to the opposite: We have no knowledge, not even a hint, of any other physical process that could sustain life than that of Earth's carbon-based chemistry.
The idea that life could take a myriad of different forms is beautiful, but it is pure fantasy, based on no evidence at all.
Why? You don't need to. GitHub will show you that diff, git itself will show you that diff. There is no need to permanently rewrite history to do this. That makes no sense.
> Managers, tech leads, or users of your OSS project don't care about the "fix typo" comments. They are interested in a meaningful history that tells a bigger story.
Why would they be looking at the version control system for this? That is not what it's there for.
Why not? I do not see any reason to have a history at all for anything except to be able to go back to a specific version to track down a problem. Inaccurate history makes that less useful.