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Old Dec 28, 2006, 10:29 am   #13 (permalink) (top)
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I don't think there is anything per se that a culture will not accept because there is no absolute wrong in the broader frame of reference. However, I think that if a culture espouses mass suicide i.e. all its members kill themselves, then the culture wouldn't last. Then again, that doesn't necessarily apply to cannibalism because in cannibalism only a few die for the sake of others.

So, absolute rights/wrongs only occur within a culture's intersubjective frame of reference. If we look to the broader frame of reference, though, that right/wrong is just relativistic.


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The suicide of our own pride?
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