From: Giu1i0 Prisc0 (g2002@prisco.info)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 22:59:58 MDT
I think e) is the right answer if their values really differ from ours. Of
course I continue to promote my values against theirs: like if a tiger wants
to eat me, I do not call it morally wrong, but protect myself and shoot the
tiger if I can.
If someone starts from the same values, but does not agree on the
conclusions, then perhaps the correct answer is b): their logic maybe
faulty.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:28 PM
Subject: Relativism of values, ideas, rights, memes
> Yes, I concur. Fundamentally, it's a question of respect.
> Just how do you regard people who reject the Extropian
> Principles?
>
> (a) they are as wrong as if they were to claim 2 + 2 = 5,
> or to claim that the Earth is hollow, or to claim that
> telepathy has been shown to work.
> (b) they are *unreasonable*, in the sense that they
> have failed to reason correctly. They should be
> regarded as wayward students, who may one day
> surmount the various logical and scientific errors
> that plague them.
> (c) they have differing values from us, but values that
> can be objectively shown to resemble the values of
> backward-looking, religious, atavistic, authoritarian,
> nihilistic, or harmful systems of the past.
> (d) they have differing values with which we strongly
> disagree and which many of us properly and often
> harshly condemn.
> (e) they have differing values from us, to which they
> are just as entitled as we are to ours, and there
> are no objective criteria against which their values
> and ours can be compared.
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