RE: virus: Cultural relativism meme

Bob Hartwig (hartwig@ais.net)
Sun, 31 May 1998 17:37:33 -0500


>Shirley
>Jackson's rural community seems like a heartland utopia ... with the slight
>kink that once a year they sacrifice a member of the community because
>that's the way it is.

Just a slight kink there.

>I contend that Ms. Haugaard's students make moral
>judgements based on expediency rather than absolute right and wrong. Their
>apathy is only important in that Ms. Haugaard might lower their grades ...

No, their apathy is important because it shows that they uncritically
accept the validity of killing others in the name of superstition. It
shows that their critical thinking skills have turned to shit. And people
think the witch hunts couldn't happen today.