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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: The Overfiend on August 31, 2009, 04:04:51 PM

Title: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: The Overfiend on August 31, 2009, 04:04:51 PM

Are there some things about the human condition that are universal to all people, or perhaps even if not strictly universal to all people, are best held to be universal?




What are your thoughts?

Title: Re: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: QuietTruth on August 31, 2009, 05:34:14 PM

Death :D

Title: Re: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: The Overfiend on August 31, 2009, 08:58:30 PM

Word. Birth and death and truly universal to the human-condition.

How about needs?

Food and shelter. 

Title: Re: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: QuietTruth on August 31, 2009, 09:35:38 PM

Yeah I was gonna say birth but than decided nahhh.


True though.

Title: Re: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: Sikotic™ on August 31, 2009, 09:47:26 PM

Quote from: QuietTruth on August 31, 2009, 05:34:14 PM

Death :D

Come to think of it, that applies to everything living.

Conflict has been a part of the human condition form the beginning if I'm not mistaken.

Title: Re: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: Fraxxx on September 01, 2009, 01:06:16 AM

I'd say competition.

Title: Re: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: ikke on September 01, 2009, 02:15:27 AM

We all want to reproduce (Not necessarily now but everybody wants to reproduce at one point in there life).

We all want life to be easier: we're building machines to do the simplest shit.

We want to feel better then other people (whoever says they don't just prove my point...)

We All Lie

And those characteristics have made the human species successful

Title: Re: Universality vs Cultural relativism
Post by: Blasphemy on September 01, 2009, 05:50:22 AM

We all want 2 get off  8)