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From: esk@wucs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion
Subject: Next!
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Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 14:32:35 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  9 14:32:35 1984
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[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
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