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To: Lane3 who wrote (62396)	10/11/2002 3:03:15 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Am I the only person here who feels you're poking at Neo with a stick? How many times will you prod him? He's explained himself for over a week now.

To: Lane3 who wrote (62396)	10/11/2002 3:15:15 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Actually, it is not even true to call them "traditional moral standards", since although there is some continuity, there is a lot of change. I am talking about the standards of the particular society in which we live. Some are "genetic", relating to British norms developed with the rise of the middle classes, or the republican character of the United States, but some are much more recent, indeed, perhaps even post- War, like the full emancipation of women or the disreputability of racism. Since you hardly appear to understand my "scheme" sometimes, I do not know how we can compare them. And since my scheme has the advantage of being more scientific than yours, it seems to me of capital importance to acknowledge how we are socialized, and how we have occasion to alter our socialization.