[ExI] are all cultures equivalent?

Dan dan_ust at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 14 13:37:38 UTC 2009


--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Dan
> <dan_ust at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Rhetorical excess!  Almost all Muslims do NOT do
> that.  The vast majority appear to live peacefully, both in
> Islamic societies and non-Islamic ones.
> 
> Yes. As do most members of any culture, provided that they
> are not
> engaged in some war-like scenario.

Exactly.  The strictly libertarian view -- which, IMO, should be the Extropian one -- is that such people should not be bothered unless and until they start behaving unpeacefully.  (Of course, one can try to peacefully proselytize them, but one should not, IMO, harass them.)

Regards,

Dan


      



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