Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wucs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!wucs!esk From: esk@wucs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion Subject: Next! Message-ID: <544@wucs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 14:32:35 EST Article-I.D.: wucs.544 Posted: Sun Dec 9 14:32:35 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:20:27 EST Distribution: net Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis, CS Dept. Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.philosophy:1288 net.religion:5018 [I'm not sure which newsgroup this came from, but it's relevant to both] > So to say that "Thus and such is (morally) wrong" is to say "Thus and > such is detremental or harmful to (will cause to change) my culture." > Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!gam Obviously false, given that people often call things done by their culture morally wrong, even when the practice is entirely consistent with the other aspects of the culture. There is nothing odd about such criticism of one's own culture, yet by gam's definition it would be very odd indeed (self-contradictory even). So much for that definition. Next! --The aspiring iconoclast, Paul V. Torek, ihnp4!wucs!wucec1!pvt1047 Please send any mail directly to this address, not the sender's. Thanks.