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Originally posted by Buff@Jan 29 2004, 02:15 PM
Immigration is not a barometer of cultural superiority?
Why aren't the rich in America fighting to win a place in jail, instead of hiring expensive lawyers to keep them out of jail, since it's all relative and jail is not inferior to being a billionaire CEO?
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I will do this slowly...so you can possibly understand it. This person asserts that cultural relativism is flawed on the basis of immigration to the US and as a result of that immigration, the US is morally superior.
Cultural relativism cannot be refuted by the immigration patterns of relatively few individuals - it simply asserts, that which the majority of any given society, at any given time, determine be right or wrong is based solely on the majority of that society's determination. Nothing else.
There is no way to refute this position based on immigration, unless this individual is privy to enough data to demonstrate at least in someway, the majority of individuals in any given society disagree with the moral mandates of that society and seek to emmigrate to the US based on that factor, his position is absolutely flawed. Even then, his position would not hold. He is using an idiotic anecdotal inference to justify a universal position; namely the US is morally superior...his premise is beyond justification or even salvaging...therefor, the conclusion does not follow.
People move to australia, GB, mexico, canada, taiwan, thailand, eastern europe, etc., their motivations are not all similart, just as those who move to the US - there is no tandem to be found - the position is for the cognitively flawed to swallow.
read it slooooowly.
best of luck -
aeon