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nishonia | 11 years ago

> Because come on, if we don't have culture, what do we have?

Well reasoned and logical action?

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dragonwriter|11 years ago

There is no such thing as logical action independent of values, which are cultural. Logic can help with determining how to serve values, but it can't tell you what your base values should be.

nishonia|11 years ago

> values, which are cultural.

It only takes one exception to disprove a rule, and in the interest of not inviting debate - I'll pick an obvious example: biological imperatives have nothing to do with culture.

Everytime I hear somebody excuse silly behaviour with "culture" it reminds me of the Louis CK bit: http://youtu.be/CQSRPMFDTSs