Your argument sounds stupid. :)
You're still saying "I'm in the 'in' crowd, so you're wrong/stupid".
That's a logical non-sequitur for starters.
On the subject of killing in particular, it's not black and white. You
say "it's allways wrong to kill except in self defense", but killing
isn't always black and white and self-defense isn't always black and
white. There's assasination for starters -- the question of whether or
not you would have killed Hitler if you had the opportunity and knew
before hand is a classic example. Lots of folks believe abortion is
murder, but if you read Freakonomics, you know that even if there were
an absolute truth to the idea that abortion is murder, the subject
would still not be black and white because of what we know to be the
societal repercussions of a ban on abortion in the past.
I'm not saying that whatever a culture wants to do is fine. When I
believe that my culture is doing a bad thing I speak out and attempt
to encourage the culture to change. What I'm saying is that the fact
that lots of people agree with you doesn't make you right. You're
actually using the same culturally-relative argument that you're then
lambasting others for using. Except I'm not using that argument -- I'm
telling you it's wrong.
G wrote:
> Cultural relativism says that anything goes, as long as
> the local "culture"
> deems it ok.
> Ergo.....slavery, murder, rape..you name it.....is all
> fair game, as long as
> you can get enough people to agree with it.
> Now you tell me......what argument sounds stupid?
>> That really is a dumb argument regardless of what label
>> you want to
>> put on things ("cultural relativism")... What you've said
>> is "lots of
>> people agree with me, therefore everyone who disagrees is
>> stupid".
>> Read Freakonomics if you haven't. The majority of people
>> have been
>> wrong about half of everything since man could walk
>> upright.
>>
>>
>> s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201
>> new epoch : isn't it time for a change?
>>
>> add features without fixtures with
>> the onTap open source framework
>>
>> http://www.fusiontap.com
>> http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm
>>
>>
>>
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