Re: MD A Question of Balance / Rules of the Game

From: Rebecca Temmer (ratemmer.lists@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 06 2005 - 04:08:55 GMT

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     Hello David,
    I see what you're saying but I think we're coming from slightly different
    points of view - let me try to explain myself.
     Daid said:
    What with the popular, of cultural relativism I actually think this is a
    dangerous standpoint to take. People are poor, people are rich, it's all
    relative; people live, people are killed, it's all relative; people lie,
    people are honest, it's all relative.
    It's not. What happens in one culture is not completely disrelated to
    another. Just because hedonism is bad in one culture and O.K. in
    another doesn't suddenly make hedonism 'relative'. Hedonism, i.e
    intellectual advocacy of biological quality, threatens social value and
    so it is bad not just for one particular person in one particular
    culture at a certain time, but for all people, everywhere.

    Rebecca replies:
     When I write 'it's all relative' I'm not tyring to claim that everything is
    equal; I think that's obviously untrue. What I'm implying, for example, is
    that hedonism is not bad _by itself_ you need to put it into context in
    order for it to be bad - or good. Depending on what point of view you look
    at hedonism, it can be either. From a social point of view, hedonism is evil
    because it destroys society; from a biological point of view, however,
    hedonism is great.
    Nothing can be measured but by comparison to something else - that's what
    I'm getting at. Now the task becomes saying what viewpoint should take
    precedent. The MOQ says that the intellectual level shouldn't cater to the
    biological level if it undermines the social level.
     I'm not sure if I'm being entirely clear here. Do you understand what I'm
    getting at?
     Rebecca

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