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To: Neocon who wrote (60718)	10/2/2002 4:05:29 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) of 82486

I think I have responded to your arguments. Disagreement is response. I have even articulated several cases where we have reached agreement, and several where we haven't -- something I don't recall your doing at all. But I am still incapable of understanding how you can say that society A develops its set of values internally, and society B develops its set of values internally, but for some reason it would be possible for an outside observer to say that A's are better than B's until, in your conception, somebody has a direct line to God to determine which God thinks is better. Everybody thinks their values are closer to the ideal, or else they would change them. I don't know of any society which over the course of time has said "our value system is wrong, theirs is right, but we're not going to change ours to theirs." If a society comes to believe that slavery really is wrong, it stops slaveholding. If a society comes to believe that marrying girls off from their cradles is wrong, it will stop the practice. If it continues the practice, that must be because they think the value is the better one than the alternative.

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