begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:02:21PM -0800: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:01:02 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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". > > So you agree with me?
Er... With what? Your assertion that some monocultures are good? No. That you have something that approaches a counterexample? No. That killing people for theft isn't very sensible? Perhaps. But _that_ is utterly irrelevent. -Stewart "Bullies don't think that bullying is a bad thing." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
