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themicrowave
10-24-2008, 08:33 PM
There are some very good ones. But let's hear yours first.

Wellington
10-24-2008, 08:36 PM
Tell us yours first. I'm bored enough to actually read it.

buddix
10-24-2008, 08:42 PM
Absolutes do exist.

gratif
10-25-2008, 01:20 AM
Here's an absolute:

Female Genital Mutilation is not just an alternative cultural practice; it violates the harm principle and it's just fucking wrong. If the postmodernismfags want to label that sentiment as my western-chauvinist/hegemonic bias/InsertSociologyBuzzwordHere, then I shall lay my moral dick on the table and tell them to have a lick. Because I'm right.


Also, "there are no absolutes" is an absolute statement.

dubiousFrotteur
10-25-2008, 08:21 AM
Absolutes do exist.
QFT. Also, I like the fact that most people are just plain wrong.

grail
10-25-2008, 08:43 AM
Absolutes do exist.
QFT. Also, I like the fact that most people are just plain wrong.

thats it df u cunt. typical. just sit there and say "ur wrong!" without actually backing it up with anything substantial or worthwhile. wanker

Ancient Mariner
10-25-2008, 12:29 PM
yes, I'm doing this essay too, fien, for my ethics class.

Rusulki
10-25-2008, 12:32 PM
Here's an absolute:

Female Genital Mutilation is not just an alternative cultural practice; it violates the harm principle and it's just fucking wrong. If the postmodernismfags want to label that sentiment as my western-chauvinist/hegemonic bias/InsertSociologyBuzzwordHere, then I shall lay my moral dick on the table and tell them to have a lick. Because I'm right.


Also, "there are no absolutes" is an absolute statement.

I heard a great story awhile ago about the British occupation of India. During a traditional funeral everyone was getting ready to throw the widow onto the pyre when the commander of the local regiment stopped them. They told him that it was a cultural practice and that he should respect thier tradition. The commander replied that he also had a cultural tradition and that was to hang people who burned innocent people alive and that they should build their pyre and he'll start building a gallows and that they should all just see how everything works out.