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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul Torek)
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Subject: Re:Re: Next!
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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 22:33:10 EST
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From: lip@masscomp.UUCP (John Lipinski)
>>[me]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).
>
> No, you don't get off that easy.  You'll have to give us some examples of 
> "morally wrong" things that that are  "entirely consistent with  the other
> aspects of the culture" before you can say "obviously false."

I said that often *people call* things morally wrong that are entirely
consistent with the other aspects of their culture.  Examples?  Slavery,
U.S., 1850 -- the abolitionist movement.  Libertarianism, Marxism, or
just about any ideological movement in its infancy.  All these groups
were critics of their cultures.  QED.

				--The accomplished iconoclast,
				Paul V Torek, umcp-cs!flink