Comments on: The concept of ‘murder’ is not ‘universal’ http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/01/30/the-concept-of-murder-is-not-universal/ A place for raw, uncensored ideas to be hurled about, recklessly... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Calculus http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/01/30/the-concept-of-murder-is-not-universal/#comment-2377 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:26:49 +0000 http://xanthippaschamberpot.wordpress.com/?p=834#comment-2377 I missed this gem of a post the first time around.

This leads to some interesting scenarios. What happens when two groups that have different definitions of murder interact? Do one or both of the groups change their definitions? If so, how and to what? Does one group eliminate the other? Definitely food for my thoughts.

Xanthippa says:

Thanks!

And – we are experiencing this right now.

To the extreme school of Islamist thought, it is not ‘murder’ to kill a non-Muslim.

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]]> By: Diaspora and our ‘bronze-age-brains’ « Xanthippa’s Chamberpot http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/01/30/the-concept-of-murder-is-not-universal/#comment-1722 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:03:08 +0000 http://xanthippaschamberpot.wordpress.com/?p=834#comment-1722 [...] The same is true of ‘murder’ – the concept of ‘killing another human being’ as ‘bad’ or ‘immoral’ is actually not all that common… as I have ranted on before. [...]

]]> By: Diaspora and our ‘bronze-age-brains’ « Xanthippa on Aspergers http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/01/30/the-concept-of-murder-is-not-universal/#comment-1703 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:24:33 +0000 http://xanthippaschamberpot.wordpress.com/?p=834#comment-1703 [...] The same is true of ‘murder’ – the concept of ‘killing another human being’ as ‘bad’ or ‘immoral’ is actually not all that common… as I have ranted on before. [...]

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