From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 02:27:57 MST
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From: Dick.Gray@bull.com <Dick.Gray@bull.com>
Regardless which direction they're imposed, I claim that imposing anything
>on anyone by force is simply uncivilized behavior, whether it's displayed
>by a schoolyard bully or endemic in the population at large. To the extent
>any culture - including ours - embraces the idea that coercion is
>defensible behavior, it has no claim to be a civilized culture. Cultural
>relativism is beside the point.
So you'd discount what most people mean by civilised (just did a quick check
and found that the most common definition runs to "Technologically advanced
and rationally ordered"). And remove all possible candidates for
civilisation (there being none that fit your criteria).
Samael
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