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To: The Philosopher who wrote (17748)	7/7/2001 3:02:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 82486

I don't know how I let myself get sucked into these discussions on relativism while its principal on this thread chooses to avert her eyes! . But when she says other peoples' behaviors don't accord with her values, she's judging them by her standard, not theirs. I think a true relativist wouldn't do this. Seems to me that a relativist is allowed to have personal values and to judge others by those values for one's own personal use. No one is required to like kimchi or body art. Nor to refrain from expressing those opinions in a personal setting. Nor to check one's brains at the door. I would think that relativism would restrain one from prosteletizing or denying others their own values. It might also provoke one to be repulsed by those who impose their values on others, particularly by violent means. A relativist would, IMO, say that, and say that there is just as much virtue in their policy of stoning such women as there is in our Western policy of oogling them in their string bikinis on the California beaches. Yes, I think so, to the extent that the women acceded by their participation in the society to being stoned or oogled. Karen P.S. I swim most days for an hour or so clad speedo and sometimes a cap. It's a lovely experience to feel the cushioning and the refreshment of the water--I feel light and agile and invigorated. The last few days I couldn't help think about those who never get to do that. It's very hard to imagine anyone actually wanting to go out in this weather completely covered by pounds of black cloth. I think about the stories of ferry accidents in the South Pacific where women were drowned by the weight of their garments. I suppose they accept the deprivation of the recreational swim and the risk of the accidental swim. I respect their choices, if they are, indeed, choices.

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