Setanta wrote on Aug 10
th, 2018 at 9:46pm:
Aussie wrote on Aug 10
th, 2018 at 9:40pm:
Setanta wrote on Aug 10
th, 2018 at 9:34pm:
Aussie wrote on Aug 10
th, 2018 at 9:28pm:
Aaaaah......so how about Pigmies. Is their culture the equal to the Japanese and Chinese.....or is this just yet another boring Islam bash?
You might have to enlighten me about pygmies.
You asked me a question, I answered it and now I've turned it into another boring Islam bash? Of course it is, it's a pox. If you have something other that insinuations about my character for what I have said, now is the time. Is Islamic culture superior to Chinese, Japanese or Alaskan cultures? Which would you prefer to live in? Will you be moving to Saudia Arabia with your IB? How would your wife like living in a culture you defend?
I don't defend Islam at all. I argue against bigotry like...."Not all cultures are equal," and inherent to that is that some are more equal than others.
Yet, you fail to countenance that 'equality' is in the eye of the person living any particular culture. The Chinks hate the Jap culture and resent their culture. Are their cultures equal, Setanta?
So you think all cultures
are equal? If a culture decides prisoners of war are to have their hearts torn beating from their chests to sacrifice to their gods, that's ok? We just do things differently? Since we live in a multicultural society, we should just accept it.
Set, people like Aussie and Greg have moral confusion.
She: What makes you think that science will ever be able to say that forcing women to wear burqas is wrong?
Me: Because I think that right and wrong are a matter of increasing or decreasing wellbeing—and it is obvious that forcing half the population to live in cloth bags, and beating or killing them if they refuse, is not a good strategy for maximizing human wellbeing.
She: But that’s only your opinion.
Me: Okay… Let’s make it even simpler. What if we found a culture that ritually blinded every third child by literally plucking out his or her eyes at birth, would you then agree that we had found a culture that was needlessly diminishing human wellbeing?
She: It would depend on why they were doing it.
Me (slowly returning my eyebrows from the back of my head): Let’s say they were doing it on the basis of religious superstition. In their scripture, God says, “Every third must walk in darkness.”
She: Then you could never say that they were wrong.
https://samharris.org/moral-confusion-in-the-name-of-science/