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

To: Neocon who wrote (60563)	10/1/2002 6:06:23 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I tried it again. And I couldn't see any basis for saying that one society is better than another, or one moral system is better than another. That only happens if you have some external standard to judge them by. But if all morals are societally generated, then all are equally valid. It's like astronomy. In the abstract, Ptolmeic and Copernician systems are both, in principle, right. Both are consistent, both work. In that case, though, we have an external to judge them against -- the physical world. And as it turns out, Copernican is more useful in understanding the movement of the heavenly bodies than Ptolemaic. But that's only because we have an external standard. If we were locked up on a room and made to study both without any recourse to an external reference, we couldn't say that one was better than the other.