3 ms·
> the sense of right and wrong is a general human trait, independent of race or culture. If you're talking about the fact that every culture has notions of rig
by Raphael_Amiard 15y ago
> the sense of right and wrong is a general human trait, independent of race or culture.
If you're talking about the fact that every culture has notions of right and wrong, yeah sure.
If you're saying that what is right and what is wrong is universal and not cultural ... Well where to begin
Some of thoses traits are shared amongst most cultures (Murder is wrong, incest is wrong), but even there there are exceptions (ritual murder ?). For anything more complicated than that, this position is simply impossible to hold.
Most precisely, about property, intellectual or physical, and things like profit, the sense of right and wrong varies so wildly amongst cultures that i can't really think you're making this argument seriously.
- blub 15y agoI'm saying that the notions of right and wrong come firstly from our human nature, secondly from our society and so on. Last in this list is ethics as personal preference or "something private" as Linus likes to call it. And even if it does vary wildly in current cultures, there is such a thing as a sense of morals that we can combine with rational thought to reach a fair solution. The fact that culture A considers ritual murder ok fails this morals + rational though test.
- aliguori 15y agoEven within a single culture, it varies widely. Just in the US, look at the opposing views toward capital punishment.