[Air-l] universal ethics?

[Paula]

Afterthought: what's important to summarise here is that the 
universalisation of a particular interest is often what passes for a 
universal ethic.

Paula

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> Radhika Gajjala wrote:
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>>> Hi all, I have had time to read the replies and thanks for brushing 
>>> up my ethics and legal studies with your comments.
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>>> My point needs explaining. I chat at yahoo. Recently more chatters 
>>> are from Pakistan. Sometimes people do not tolerate them based on 
>>> their foreign origin. I started chatting with one particular person. 
>>> He always bless's me. I assume in his culture which I know very 
>>> little about this is a norm much like we in Canada might ask "how's 
>>> it going?" or "how are you today?" as a conversational norm. Just a 
>>> little detail.
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>> when I was in Catholic school - we constantly blessed each other too.
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>> We learned this cultural code from each other and from the nuns and 
>> teachers in the school.
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>> We didnt have to.
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>> I agree - this is more an issue of intercultural, contextual 
>> exploration (n)ettiquette - mutually negotiated -  than of ethics.
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>>> I should not have put my question as universal ethics (blame my past 
>>> computer ethics course with Diane Dubrule) but rather intercultural 
>>> exploration.
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>>> There are still so many people to meet on the Internet. Unicode and 
>>> XML as Larry Wall suggests will make it even easier to talk with 
>>> others. What was once an unrealistic  hope of cross culturalism via 
>>> Internet is I think becoming easier to access and more realistic. 
>>> Mostly because more of the world in "other" places is getting 
>>> on-line now. Lucky for me they know a little English. ;)
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>> luckily for you indeed.
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>> r
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>>> Peter Timusk B.Math Just trying to stay linear
>>> www.crystalcomputing.net >blog> http://logbook.crystalcomputing.net
>>> www.webpagex.org >blog> http://notebook.webpagex.org
>>> eof
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