Thursday, March 29, 2007

Class Discussion: Universal Right?

I honestly dont believe that there is or ever will be a universal right or wrong. The human species is too diverse culturally to make one code of conduct. Historically, the most civilized societies have broken codes of conduct that are now deemed wrong in our culture. Sure those societies burned to the ground, but its not because they liked seranading little boys(i.e. Athenians), but the Spartans weren't right either when they killed the babies that had defects.

Everything depends on the culture you live in. Genocide is alright in Africa(not to the people being hunted), but there is nobody stopping it. The UN though, has a strong policy against mass killing of people based on their race or religion or whatever they are discriminating against. People in general are hypocritical and we cant prevent that, therefore there will never be world peace or a universal code that everyone obeys. How would you enforce this without killing or punishing in some drastic way the disobeyers?

4 comments:

Caitlin said...

wow, is this pro-golfer chris lum?

Caitlin said...

nah, this is loser-golfer caitlin. haha. what do you mean "quit golf"? No more saturday classes?

Caitlin said...

are you doing junior tour?
what a golf dork!...but yes, it is makaha. The punahou pic is from winnie pickup area.

Caitlin said...

"like the inside of my thigh"...ok, thats great, i don't really get it.

money obsessed are we? haha, typical chinese :)

btw, i think you need to make a new post or something...cause i have def. left you enough comments on this post.