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Originally Posted by DanaC
Alright. explain to me why what I said was incorrect.
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I didn't say it was "incorrect". But I am rather reminded of Wolfgang Pauli, who once said "That theory is so worthless, it isn't even wrong."
Are you then so paralyzed by guilt over your ignorance of a culture that you can't evaluate it at all? Are you allowed to have an opinion about, say, female genital mutiliation? Remeber, it occurs in a culture you don't understand fully, so I guess the jury's still out on that one. Or do you judge it partially, rather than fully? If so..what does that mean?
And what cultures *do* you understand fully? Are you sure? I mean, there's something you might have missed. :-)
The whole spiel just seemed to be soaked in such a no-fault relativism that it could find an excuse for anything it wanted to.
I'd like to recommend
Richard Mitchell's writings to you.