-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/07 20:54, Martin Marcher wrote: > On 5/6/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:26:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > On 05/05/07 09:29, Joe Hart wrote: >> > > >> > > Exactly, but we consider human sacrifice today to be a bad thing. >> > >> > That's my exact point. What we consider murder, they considered >> > politics and religion. >> > >> Not quite so. Abortion. It is considered by many (a majority depending >> on who you ask) to be squarely in the realm of politics and not murder. > > Nice discussion, I guess it just depends on what you consider to be > normal. Think of visual signs in public traffic in my country an open > hand held directly against someone is generally considered to mean > "STOP". I somewhere read (that may not be reliable but imho very well > possible) that in some asian country that very sign means something > like "I'm gonna smear shit in your face". It may effectively be a bad > experience to use that sign in the wrong country :)
The hand wave that Americans (and Brits?) to mean "good bye" means, to Italians, "come here". Very confusing when your tour guide is saying "Come here!" and waving "good bye". > So where is good and where is evil, is it evil to help someone commit > suicide or is evil because society teaches us exactly that (being at > the topic: the question of course implies that where I live it is > generally a "bad" thing to do so, even prohibited by law, even self > murder is forbidden, but I've always wondered how they punish self > murderers) > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPUmCS9HxQb37XmcRAp/RAJsFEb9ZIGZpla5rquWTUDnmr6j6UQCfQHz5 Shzp1+leR3TErXCie6KgRlI= =DATB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
