On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:01 PM, malcymo <[email protected]> wrote: > Dead right, Chuck. > > Is this not a product of western type thinking. Actions need to be > judged in the west. All western 'isms' seem to require simplistic > rules and judgement. Christianity seems to be the worst example. Ten > rules, set in stone. >
Is this really an artifact specific to western culture? I'm not really worldly enough to make a comparison with other cultures but it seems to me like this is more a tool for simplifying a far deeper subject. It seems to me that the human mind just naturally wants to take a shortcut through complexity. We ignore the subtleties of the subject so that we don't get mired down. > The police like them as well e.g. - 29 miles per hour is safe see, 31 > miles per hour is bloody dangerous. The truth seems to be that society > needs these simplistic rules because lerge groups do not know enough > abvout themselves to pursue justice on a case by case basis - I hope I > have made this clear. > Agreed.
