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To: TimF who wrote (150592)	8/28/2002 5:37:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585845

However I think that if you can say that a culture sucks because of its moral ideas you are saying some moral ideas are better or more right then others. I think the writer wants to get the benefits of absolute morality without the label and I'm not sure it really works. Tim, one problem with these long exchanges is that the original premise gets lost in the shuffle. What I said originally to D. Ray, I think, was that the Iraqis may see us as evil based on their values and perceptions and biases. I never affixed a rightness or wrongness to their evaluation but simply threw it out there as a way to show that they are thinking the same way we are except in the inverse and to raise the possibility that we may not be right.......for discussion purposes. However, I tend to believe that our evaluation of evil is the correct one but I also think that we need to see how the other side sees things for a lot of different reasons. As an aside, your definition of moral absolutes is confusing to me. I had always thought that moral absolutes were established for a particular culture, not intercultural. I think its possible to come up with some absolutes that can be considered intercultural but I don't think that all absolutes can be transposed from culture to culture with equal results. I think there is enough differences between some cultures to skew and modify the absolutes for each of those culture. But I have to admit its not something about which I think a lot. <g> ted