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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (30211)9/29/2001 12:58:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
I am afraid that some cultures are the cultural equivalent of something like the Ebola virus. They cannot get along with other cultures. Their fate is to destroy or be destroyed. There have been cultures like this in the past, no doubt there will be more in the future. Such cultures, when isolated, merely kill their own. But when they branch out, to kill others - in violent cultural imperialism (which ironically they rarely recognize about themselves)- practically they must be isolated, and then destroyed. I am sad to say this, I don't like to destroy things, but some things are so dangerous to us, some germs, some cultures, some substances, that we simply can't have them around.

And that is what I think.



To: Lane3 who wrote (30211)9/29/2001 3:18:02 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 82486
 
what do we do about the gap between us and this "strange" cultural morality.

The first thing we must do is acknowledge the superiority of Western Civilization. Our tradition, which follows Athens and Jerusalem, is intrinsically superior to Islamic tradition.


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