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To: Lane3 who wrote (15361)	6/24/2002 12:50:30 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Offending our sense of justice may be like offending our sense of symmetry, which is, be it noted, innate and independent of culture. You are being unusually dogmatic today. Nor is your "raised differently" business particularly evidentiary. I know how to count to any number. If I were raised in some cultures, I would only know to count to three, then say "many" after that. Does that mean that enumeration is purely subjective, or circumstantial? I have reason to believe that the level of moral reasoning that has gone into making our culture, particularly our high culture, has advanced our notion of justice as it has our notions of science or mathematics. But even if I were wrong, I am not obviously so. As for setting objectives, I am for setting objectives too. My objective is a just society. How do we get that? Nothing is practical except in relation to an end. If you know what you are aiming at, then you can defined useful steps to get there. But first, you have to know where you are going. We cannot shrug off the discussion of ends.......