On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
You're right, I used the term incorrectly. Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
