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Carotinho wrote:
>Hi!

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>Alle 18:33, sabato 11 marzo 2006, Paul Davis ha scritto:

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>>the USA has historically acted in a way that suggests a profound

>>institutional  fear; a fear of creating laws that rely on somnewhat arbitary

>>"lines" which when you cross them invite a different legal response than

>>when you stay on the other side.

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>But there is something that is not an "arbitrary lines". There are absolute

>values, like importance of human beings etc. You simply cannot put these

>values into discussion, because they are the foundation of social living (and

>not only that...). The new-age idea that "everything is relative" or what

>else it's spelled in English, is not appliable, IMO, to human beings,

>otherwise everything crumbles. This is why there are laws against racism,

>sexism, slavery, violence etc. in all the countries, given that the freedom

>to think differently cannot exceeds the bounds of social livings: say what

>you want, but you ca't do it if it's inhuman. And we have to accept that,

>while conception of mankind etc. can differ from culture to culture, those

>absolute values remains the same.

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>Example: female mutilations in Africa. They are practiced sometimes by mothers

>to their own daughters, since they thinks it's right. Should they be _free_

>to think, I'm sure they would recognize that this is a dishuman practice, to

>be banned as soon as possible, because it goes against the simplest idea of

>human being. They say that they are content of these practices? They are,

>only as we are content when people agree with us: that is, we feel that we

>are well inserted in a given community (think of boys that commit crimes in

>order of being accepted by friends etc.). So, it's relativism again, and it

>would destroy itself and the surrounding world: if everything is relative,

>even the idea that everything is relative should be relative, so nothing is

>sure etc. etc:)

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>Sorry for the OT!

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>Byez!

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>Carotinho

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This is what I was trying to say. Thanks.

c.

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