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

To: Neocon who wrote (60691)	10/2/2002 2:39:18 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

So then how can you say one set of values learned at one mother's knee is better than another? Different, yes. But better in an objective sense? You have, for example, stated that female genital mutilation is bad, and I agree. But it is only bad within the context of OUR set of values. Within other sets of values, it may be good. My problem is that you assume that our set of values is superior to their set of values. That's where we part company. I generally like my set of values, and think they are good. But I think that because I was imbued with them at my mother's knee. If I had been born an African male, I would presumably think that fgm was a good thing, and those who objected to it were following false values, because they weren't mine. I don't see that you have presented any basis for the purely value neutral individual, if one could exist, to look at the two sets of values and find some basis on which to say that this one is good and that one is bad.