>Here's the problem people are ducking in this thread:
>there is no universally agreed upon metastandard for
>adjudicating between these moral universes. Each side
>simply takes its own beliefs as the metastandard by which
>all beliefs should be judged.
>From a theoretical POV that's true. But in the real world, cultures,
especially nowadays, aren't that overdetermined and static. Cultures meet
and interact, mix and change, no matter how much people in power try to
"deal with" that fact. Wouldn't a good progressive ideology involve wanting
that sort of open-ness, while protecting those who want to "opt out" of a
particular culture's acts and artefacts?
Why must there be some "universally agreed-upon metastandard" (as much as I'd like there to be one) in real life?
Todd
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