On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, TeknoDragon wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> > I don't think it is valid to say that just because s.th. is "culture",
> > that it's right.
>
> likewise it's not valid to refute any cultural mechanism... I see this
> often in religious arguments... and well, the refutation of all
> social/psychological devices as worthless is ethnocentric, unfortunately
> that perspective might as well deem the idea of ethnocentricism as an
> informal fallacy is popycock...
I didn't mean that. If someone wants to belive in a certain religion,
that's fine. But to shove religion down people's throats whether they want
it or not is not my thing. That "law/justice positivism" (wording?) thing
is what bothers me. Culture _can_be_ good (in many cases it is), but it
needn't be.
Nils
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