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

To: Neocon who wrote (60871)	10/3/2002 11:48:11 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

people learn moral values and precepts at their mothers' knees, So you're against mothers' now as well? Where will this anti-American sentiment you are advocating end!

To: Neocon who wrote (60871)	10/3/2002 12:17:10 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Interesting that you compare learning morals to learning language. Both, in your view, as I take it, are societal constructs. In the moral sphere you want us to impose our superior moral understanding on those of inferior moral understanding. Is the same true for language? Is Englsh superior to Latin, or German, or Chinese, or Urdu? Are people linguistically wrong who speak Spanish, or Basque? With language, I think it's clear that one may be more useful, more widely acceptable, easier to learn, than another, but it is not superior in the way that people should abandon their own language and adopt ours because that is the right thing to do. At least, I don't feel that way personally. With morals, the same is, IMO, the case. BTW, if we really are looking for the superior language, it's Esperanto.