Traditionally, the question oh "which tribe's gods are right?" has been settled through the use of stone axes, bronze swords, muskets, or M-16s.
This is just one group of hominids deciding that the other, evil hominids across the river wear the wrong hat, cut their axes the wrong way, or don't have woman dress in the way that we do -- or, even worse, have gender-segregated swimming holes. The wrong-hat-wearing, wrong-axe-making, non-bikini-having homo habilis who believes that swimming holes should be frequented by people of different genders is an abomination to Moong, God of Thunder, and he shall not be allowed to continue his foul ways! To arms, fellow hominids, to arms! I am heartened by the news that some of the hominids across the river DO wear the right kind of hats (for all hominids have some glimmer of the truth of Moong), in secret -- they are being oppressed! We must save them!
--- On Sun, 6/28/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
How do we develop
> some universal norms against which these can be evaluated?
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