On 11/30/2017 11:45 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/30/2017 10:30 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
To go further: not so long ago, most people would freely defend that
the lives of people from their ethnicity are more valuable than those
of other ethnicities. It seems to me that only recently did the
civilization process start to oppose this way of thinking, and it
seems clear that there is still a long way to go.
Yes, you will have to go a long way to convince me that Wahabist culture is
equally valuable as Western Enlightenment culture.
I think you misunderstand me, of course Western Enlightenment culture
is preferable to Wahabism.
I was referring to the biological impulse to consider those
genetically distant from you as less human.
OK. "Ethnicity" is ambiguous and often is used to designate a culture;
having nothing to do with genetics.
Brent
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