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Okay, there are a couple problems here. I’ve already refuted a couple of these points and concede on a lot of the rest - but it doesn’t matter because the things I agree with don’t prove your argument. So, a quick recap and then I’ll tackle it point by point:

My thesis is that the idea that numerous, diverse cultures all coming to the exact same conclusion is irrational. If culture is a major defining factor of morality then we should see at least a few outliers coming to the conclusion ...

Chris and I are debating. His blog has his treatise - I'm shoving this here so I can find it!

His blog: http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/en...against-murder



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So, I'm having a discussion with Teallaura as we speak about objective versus relative morality. Teallaura is asserting that - if morality is culturally relative - we would expect a society to exist or to have existed in which murder (defined as, for the purpose of this, "malicious killing without caveat") is acceptable.

I, unsurprisingly, do not agree.

Unnecessary logicy bits!
M = A society in which murder is acceptable exists.
R = Moral relativism. ...

I saw an interesting segment on Fox last night. Stossel did a show on how some of the things we 'know' prove to be untrue. He interviewed a psychiatrist who had written a book about dishonesty (the thesis being that everyone is to some extent - I can think of another Book that made the same claim 2000+ years ago... ).

One of the experiments they tried was to pay people per math problem solved. The grader would return the paper which the person was then to shred (trick shredder ...

I managed to pop back to my university library today. Books. Nomnomnom:
News on the Chinese Room
Cryptography: Theory and Practice
The economics of equal opportunity
Artificial Intelligence (Pearson)
Software Metrics
Heuristics and Biases
Cognitive Biases

A nice selection of Comp. Sci, philosophy and Soc. Sci. I need to get reading