Brin wrote: >> "You all believe that widely diverse points of view have merit, right?" I wrote "consider" using it in the sense of "to believe" rather than "t

Brin wrote: >> "You all believe that widely diverse points of view have merit, right?" I wrote "consider" using it in the sense of "to believe" rather than "to evaluate". "Consider" was my word. Brin used "believe". And, I do believe he was talking about cultural relativism. That specific phrase has unpleasant philosophical and moral booby traps, however, so the left-leaning intelligentsia and fellow travelers of the time ignored these traps by subscribing to the concept without actually using the term.