CHAT: conculture's value systems [was Re: Sexual terminology ]

Irina Rempt scripsit:
> On Saturday 22 December 2001 12:27, Christophe wrote:
>
> > A conculture doesn't mandatorily reflects the views of its
> > author. Think of Irina, whose conculture is anything but Orthodox
> > Christian.
>
> It does hold comparable values of good and evil as I do myself,
> however, perhaps even expressed more explicitly.
It is perhaps worth mentioning that people on Phalera do not
hold particularly different values from the kinds of value
systems that arise on Earth.  The difference lies in the way
I view mankind:  I do not think that when people fail to live
up to some abstract standard of good it is because those
people are to that extent 'evil'.  They fail because when
followers of that standard (whether theistic or secular) want
one set of circumstances to be the case, but those circumstances
fatally violate some tenet of the standard, the tendency is
for them to ignore or rewrite the countervailing tenets so they
can reify those circumstances anyways. Humans are 'imperfect'
then because they have conflicting interests (whether to feed
the poor or to murder your political opponents) and sometimes
the conflict is resolved in a way contrary to whatever has
been declared 'moral' because human beings don't *want* to
be 'moral', but rather want to appear moral while doing what
ever it is that they want otherwise (money, power, sex, etc.).

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