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Originally Posted by Skybird
Assuming (for simple probability reasons) that you come from North America or Europe, I give up when I even must tell you about your own cultural identity and history. You are a totally blank neutrum, then. If I must tell you how to define your philosophical and cultural background, you are lost, you will never know who you are, and words like humanism, freedom, ethic, responsebility, will always be empty word-shells only for you.
And sooner or later you will fall prey to those who - different to you - know all too well whom they are and what they want. But they eventually will be thankful that you paved them the way so willingly, before they destroy you. That is kind of them, isn't it.
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Nice try to weasel out, but your argument doesn't work. Yes, I personally can define
my cultural values. Who cares? I'm not empowered to push my values on the entire population. Last time I checked, I'm not King.
Forget my culture. What system do you propose for your own? Or where you live is the population so monolithic, so posessed of a single political and cultural point of view, that such determinations take no effort? That it is just so completely obvious what values are cultural imperatives?
Please enlighten me on how you propose to choose what values are basic moral standards and which ones are corrupting for your own culture. Remember, this is choosing values for everyone, not just for yourself. This is a system to choose a universal set of values for your entire culture and all its population.
Or do you actually have the overwhelming ego to believe that
your personal list is "The One True Way"?