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


To: Neocon who wrote (60900)10/3/2002 1:00:14 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
Language is not intrinsically tied up with what makes a society successful,
which is the main criterion I have used to recommend one system of values
over another.


I'm not sure. If a society has no word for thief, that indicates to me a society without thievery, which is a good thing. Maybe when they start learning languages that have lots of words for crimes they will start getting the idea of creating crimes.

But we'll pass that for rnow.