Re: Philosophical Quandry: Piracy
I have redefined no terms. I have only stated that the practices of morality in different cultures are not the same.
Also, I will have to repeat myself by saying that my original question had nothing to do with other cultures, but with US culture. Within a culture, morality is absolute. But outside of that culture, its moral values are not absolute, and they vary from culture to culture. I was never talking about oppressive cultures, but about morality in general. There are a near-infinite amounts of variations on moral issues that have nothing to do with oppression or killing.
The tangent I started was not related to the original question (as it was not asking about moral values in other cultures, just US culture), but to your statement that moraliy is absolutely static, which it is most certainly not.
[ July 11, 2003, 23:12: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]
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