From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Sat Nov 05 2005 - 15:54:35 GMT
[David]
I disagree,
What with the popular, of cultural relativism I actually think this is a
dangerous standpoint to take. People are poor, people are rich, it's all
relative; people live, people are killed, it's all relative; people lie,
people are honest, it's all relative.
It's not. What happens in one culture is not completely disrelated to
another. Just because hedonism is bad in one culture and O.K. in another
doesn't suddenly make hedonism 'relative'. Hedonism, i.e intellectual
advocacy of biological quality, threatens social value and so it is bad not
just for one particular person in one particular culture at a certain time,
but for all people, everywhere.
[Case]
If this were just nonsense I could have let it slide, as I have no desire to
get into this debate but this not just nonsense it is pernicious nonsense.
Letting it alone is like leaving a loaded gun on a preschool playground. The
idea that there are Moral Absolutes and that one culture is "right" and
another is "wrong" is exactly the case the Muslim extremists make make and
use to justify their guerilla wars against the Great Satan. It is a very bad
idea to judge one culture from the perspective of another. This practice has
been soundly condemned within the social sciences and rightly so.
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