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To: ProgressingAmerica
You confuse values systems specific to particular cultures with universals, and belief systems with scientific facts that are out there to discover.

The values system of checks and balances on power that produced the US Constitution had a long gestation period, starting perhaps with the Magna Carta. Again, a particular of Anglo (and later Anglo-American) culture. To say that it also applies to Australia Aborigenes or Ojibwe Indians is as absurd as claiming that the temperament system used in Western tonal music represents some sort of musical universal (i.e. it's alien to Asians used to the pentatonic scale, just like a constitutional republic is alien to most cultures).

39 posted on 05/23/2026 11:26:55 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

Ok, well we can agree to disagree.

I mean, I would be happy to continue to chat but I’ve had some long ones with others lately and I think we both know where our ideas are at.


46 posted on 05/23/2026 9:35:59 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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