I don't see it as giving them the right to do what they did, it just gives us a better understanding.
What is 'right' Pape?
Re: Your Opinions on Moral/Cultural Relativity
I don't see it as giving them the right to do what they did, it just gives us a better understanding.
What is 'right' Pape?
Re: Your Opinions on Moral/Cultural Relativity
Youre not the first, and you surely wont be the last..I think you're a stinkin racist and a homophobe, you nazi!
Oh and TuffStuff, youve blown my mind with that first post. Ive read it several times..
Re: Your Opinions on Moral/Cultural Relativity
yea - that whole thought process never seems to impress anyone
and i can never make it sound right as i think it
i have been reading to try to feel that someone understands - and as it turns out the concepts that i have been trying (and failing) to get at are found in nihilist and existentialist thought by various philosophers
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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