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To: rmlew; Hank Kerchief
a recognition of similaraty among ones people. This is the basis of culture and civilization.

I don't think so. I believe the basis of culture and civilization is the grasping and utilization of "the Golden Rule," wherein each person identifies and integrates, on his own, the CONCEPT that if he wants to live peacefully and productively among others, and cooperate with them, he has to treat others as he wants to be treated himself. Simply identifying who's in your tribe and who isn't keeps one strictly on the PERCEPTUAL level, not the conceptual level, and thus still on THE SAME LEVEL AS ANIMALS -- or of religious or racist fanatics.

16 posted on 01/22/2007 8:16:07 PM PST by FreeKeys (Why not McCain? Because he won't nominate Supreme Court justices who'd overturn McCain-Feingold.)
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To: FreeKeys

Thank you for the link to the Freedom Keys Racism page.

Hank


18 posted on 01/24/2007 10:41:15 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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