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Ch. 5 - Ruthlessness and the Origin of Civilization

#15: July - Aug. 2004 (Non-Fiction)
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Re: Ch. 5 - Ruthlessness and the Origin of Civilization

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Hey Gino! This is in response to you!Quote: Naive and unsophisticated multiculturalists think that meters and yards measure different things, which explains how they accept the sophistical nonsense of cultural relativism This is a really dangerous sentence. See how he mixes a fact (yards vs. meter) with his opinion, trying to say the opinion is true because of the fact? However, there is actually no relation between the two.I agree...he tries to draw similarities between apples and oranges. He also uses this analogy of measurement in Chapter 7, when he states:Quote:"But to think your way is superior to the ways of others is to think that the two ways are commensurable
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