[linux-audio-user] Re: POLL: Marketing Free Music

[Cesare Marilungo]

Carotinho wrote:

>Hi!
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>Alle 18:33, sabato 11 marzo 2006, Paul Davis ha scritto:
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>>the USA has historically acted in a way that suggests a profound
>>institutional  fear; a fear of creating laws that rely on somnewhat arbitary
>>"lines" which when you cross them invite a different legal response than
>>when you stay on the other side.
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>But there is something that is not an "arbitrary lines". There are absolute 
>values, like importance of human beings etc. You simply cannot put these 
>values into discussion, because they are the foundation of social living (and 
>not only that...). The new-age idea that "everything is relative" or what 
>else it's spelled in English, is not appliable, IMO, to human beings, 
>otherwise everything crumbles. This is why there are laws against racism, 
>sexism, slavery, violence etc. in all the countries, given that the freedom 
>to think differently cannot exceeds the bounds of social livings: say what 
>you want, but you ca't do it if it's inhuman. And we have to accept that, 
>while conception of mankind etc. can differ from culture to culture, those 
>absolute values remains the same.
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>Example: female mutilations in Africa. They are practiced sometimes by mothers 
>to their own daughters, since they thinks it's right. Should they be _free_ 
>to think, I'm sure they would recognize that this is a dishuman practice, to 
>be banned as soon as possible, because it goes against the simplest idea of 
>human being. They say that they are content of these practices? They are, 
>only as we are content when people agree with us: that is, we feel that we 
>are well inserted in a given community (think of boys that commit crimes in 
>order of being accepted by friends etc.). So, it's relativism again, and it 
>would destroy itself and the surrounding world: if everything is relative, 
>even the idea that everything is relative should be relative, so nothing is 
>sure etc. etc:)
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>Sorry for the OT!
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>Byez!
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>Carotinho
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This is what I was trying to say. Thanks.

c.
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