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

To: St_Bill who wrote (30456)	9/30/2001 7:58:20 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't agree with you at all. You are defining relativism in the way that suits you. I define relativism broadly, so that it can include responsible relativists, such as myself. Since we are in a relative world you can, of course, define relativism any way you like. Just as I can. And neither of us is "absolutely" right, or wrong (imo)- just words, and ideas. Practically, however, I must point out that my definition of myself and relativism is not at odds with traditional definitions of relativism, not that that makes me absolutely any righter. I suggest that perhaps you have made a rigid choice about relativism in the past, closed off that path, and thought of it no more (as the swift seasons roar). I don't think you really gave the myriad possibilities of relativism their due. I am often tempted to do the same thing about religious people, but I try very hard not to. Because SOME religious people have intriguing philosophies that come very near my own (although I've no idea how they manage it, considering the material they are starting with, but perhaps you are confronted with this same problem, in reverse.) I am sure there are evolutionary reasons why humans prefer certain states- I have in fact always argued that on SI. But the hard wiring isn't very specific (imo) since we are great colonizers and our hard wiring allows for really huge differences in software (society), because we colonize a great variety of niches. You are, I am sure, familiar with "The Mountain People" and "The Forest People"- these two books, imo, illustrate profoundly the difference in software that can run on the human mainframe.