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To: Iwo Jima
The great number of 'cultures' on this planet provide for a wide variance of what is 'right and wrong' between them. To not be able to think of 2 cultures where a multitude of things are right in one and wrong in another is to not try very hard, or at all for that matter.

I do not believe as many lefties do that no cultures are higher than or better than others. I do not subscribe to the school of 'moral equivalency'. Clearly some cultures are superior to others.

16 posted on 07/08/2002 8:05:42 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
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To: Phantom Lord
Cultural norms do not set the standard for what is right or wrong. Right and wrong --good and evil -- exists and is objectively verifiable regardless of the ability or willingess to acknowledge that reality.

Right and wrong is an objective, not a subjective, concept. It is not relative depending on the society in which you live. The circumstances in which you find yourself are important in determining the right and wrong of a situation, but under the same circumtances an act is either right or wrong regardless of the culture or society in which you live.

It would lead to a better discussion if you would state specific instances in which you think that the same act would be right in one culture and wrong in another culture. I deny that any such circumstances exist, but since you maintain otherwise, then you should give concrete examples so that we can discuss your views based on something other than floating abstractions.

Some cultures are superior to other cultures because they acknowledge the objective reality that certain things are right and certain things are wrong PERIOD.
17 posted on 07/08/2002 8:42:41 AM PDT by Iwo Jima
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