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Originally Posted by Detroitdad
I like this style of thought. It casts aside any kind of empiricism for a value judgment on the one thing that can never be quantified: culture. It is a very convenient way to find logical consistency. And it is counterfactual. It can never be proven wrong or right. Nice.
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This is like hearing an incantation--you're repeating relativistic nonsense you heard someplace. It's dogma. Culture is not immune from empiricism, critique or value judgments just because radical-PC nuts say so. The reductio ad absurdum of your point is that you can't make a critical analysis of and value the relative benefits to their constituents of, say, a system of land barons and serfs vs. capitalism.
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Last edited by SeattleUte; 04-26-2007 at 07:24 PM.
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