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Post #18,708
by marlowe
11/18/01 8:12:47 PM
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New How hairsplitting.
Casuistry about "values" aside, by your own admission, 1 and 2 apply to you in every sense that has consequence. A nonuniversal "value" is meaningless in a universe of any type.

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Post #18,717
by Brandioch
11/18/01 11:14:04 PM
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New Depends upon how you define "meaningless".
Japanese culture placed a very high value upon ancestor "worship".

Western European culture did not.

That "value" shaped their cultures and just about everything about them.

Is that "meaningless"?

To you, it is.

To them, it wasn't.

Do you care what your great-great-great-grandfather would think of your actions?

"A nonuniversal "value" is meaningless in a universe of any type."

That is your opinion.

On the other hand, such non-universal values have resulted in the variety of cultures and individuals that we know today.

Unless you'd care to expand upon some of the "universal" values that you are aware of?
Other than the animal, that is (food, shelter, spawn).
     Economics (Terrorism?): Don Quixote Meets Godzilla for tea. - (Ashton) - (15) - Nov. 17, 2001, 06:29:25 PM EST
         What you've been accused of... - (bepatient) - (14) - Nov. 17, 2001, 06:38:19 PM EST
             Moi? Non. C'est rouges des harengs - (Ashton) - (11) - Nov. 17, 2001, 09:51:01 PM EST
                 Nihilism - (gtall) - (6) - Nov. 18, 2001, 08:45:30 AM EST
                     How strange. - (Brandioch) - (3) - Nov. 18, 2001, 01:19:44 PM EST
                         How hairsplitting. - (marlowe) - (1) - Nov. 18, 2001, 08:12:47 PM EST
                             Depends upon how you define "meaningless". - (Brandioch) - Nov. 18, 2001, 11:14:04 PM EST
                         My def was from Webster's II -NT - (gtall) - Nov. 19, 2001, 06:52:39 AM EST
                     Nice demo of the religious imperative at work, - (Ashton) - (1) - Nov. 18, 2001, 03:04:46 PM EST
                         Re: Nice demo of the religious imperative at work, - (gtall) - Nov. 19, 2001, 06:58:59 AM EST
                 Je ne pense pas, mon ami. - (bepatient) - (3) - Nov. 19, 2001, 01:33:21 PM EST
                     Tr\ufffds bon. I can work with that scale, and conclude. - (Ashton) - (2) - Nov. 19, 2001, 06:39:48 PM EST
                         Again...you ring defensive... - (bepatient) - (1) - Nov. 19, 2001, 08:27:04 PM EST
                             Dunno Beep - (Ashton) - Nov. 19, 2001, 10:55:49 PM EST
             Nit: Ridiculous, Ridiculous, Ridiculous, Ridiculous.... - (Another Scott) - (1) - Nov. 17, 2001, 10:36:57 PM EST
                 Good nit... - (bepatient) - Nov. 19, 2001, 10:03:45 AM EST

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