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I guess if people of good intention... come together to battle out the details of what may work best [then] we'll never be "too far out from the central ground of common sense".

In hindsight, I can understand that your blog entry was probably an elided reference to a whole bunch of stuff that you take for granted... I just get apprehensive when too much is taken as an assumption on shared values, having learned the hard way!



Universals, Maverick.

We humans share fundamental traits that trancend localized cultural functions. For example, your yearn to equate in worth the pecularities of variant human cultural experiments belies an understanding of objective reality.

As pack animals we have developed many different social patterns to contest our removal from the dance of human life.

Some function. Some don't.