Thursday, November 03, 2005
A Particular Expression
Customs and laws are an expression and definition of the people who create them and live by them. To violate them is not to transgress an abstract principle but to mock the people defined by them, in a particular location at a particular point in time. It makes no difference what the customs and laws are, and therefore it is not inconsistent or contradictory for something to be permitted in one place and forbidden in another. It is the assumed requirement of universality that lacks justification.
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It is the assumed requirement of universality that lacks justification.
Aah. Exactly!
Thanks for stopping by at my blog.
-- South Puget Sound Libertarian
Thanks for the visit, and for the agreement. This one is hard to persuade, either because people don't understand what you are talking about or else because, if they do, they recoil from the implications.
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