Gilberto, At 01:13 AM 1/28/2005, you wrote: >>or even trial and error, sure.<<
Well, thought experiments are not exactly based on trial and error. I wrote: >>>>I am not sure what you mean by "certain kinds of actions." However, off the >>>>top of my head, I can think of many situations in which that would not be >>>>the case. When I went to Zaire, now the Republic of the Congo, it was >>>>normative for customs officials to beg for money. (They did it to me.) What >>>>would happen if a customs official did the same in the U.S. or Germany?<<<< You replied: >>I'm not sure what you mean by "that" in "that would not be the case". You are >>the one hung up on the names now. I wouldn't assume that begging for money in >>Zeire is the same as begging for money in Germany. And perhaps you could say >>that in Zaire customs officials occurs frequently and went on unpunished. I'm >>not sure if that makes it normative.<< I don't see how saying, "I can think of many situations in which that would not be the case," is being hung up with names. You would need to explain that to me. From what I was told, begging for money by customs officials was normative. Given the problems in that country, I did not fault them for it. Regards, Mark A. Foster • http://markfoster.net • [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger." ---- Abbie Hoffman __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
