begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:16:07PM -0800: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:09:52 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 03:28:35PM -0800: > > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:46:28 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > -Stewart "Monocultures suck, even if it's all _your_ culture" Stremler > > > > > > That depends on the culture. > > > > Care to provide counter-examples? > > Sure. "Thievery is insufficient justification for killing" or "Human > life is sacred," say... > > Bring on the monoculture.
Hm. I wouldn't consider those very good examples. Given two cultures, one of which holds that theft demands restitution, and the other holds that theft demands imprisionment, you can end up with two equally valid "norms" that both exclude "thievery is insufficient justification for killing". Even within the basic concept of "rule of law" you have many variations. And that's just the political examples. -Stewart "'Pureblood' should be a sign of stupidity and weakness, no?" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
