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To: Neocon who wrote (117336)	12/18/2000 1:09:48 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The problem, of course, is the application of an anthropological methodology as an ethical principle. I believe it was Margaret Mead (or Ruth Benedict, cant remember) who pushed Cultural Relativism as an ethical guide. It is self defeating logically because if all cultural beliefs are valid, then a cultural belief that says that cultural relativism is not valid, is valid. And so on. Athropology adopted C.R. as a methodological tool of objectivity in ethnography. Stretching it, so to speak, to fit ethics is futile and absurd. Derek