In fact, there are very few universal human values

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zakiyatasnim
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In fact, there are very few universal human values

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The second example. Often at all sorts of government summits, all sorts of policemen come and scare us with the horror of pornography... pornography used to help, now either child pornography or terrorism is needed. This is like the main argument why we are needed. I just always give the example that there are countries that have different attitudes towards this. In particular, there is a country that does not really condemn child pornography. It is a large and very developed country. There are 140 or 170 million of them there, but no one would call Japan a backward country. Nevertheless, the cultural differences are huge. Even in such a question that seems universal to us. In general, everything is greatly exaggerated regarding universal human values.By the way, I again cannot help but refer to the work of Hayek - he received the Nobel Prize for defining what morality is. There were many points of view on what it is. He defined it this way: there are certain mechanisms that gave an individual a greater chance of survival in the course of natural selection, for luxembourg number data example, the presence of a brain. And there are certain mechanisms that gave a greater chance of survival to a group. Well, these mechanisms are morality. That is, what seems moral to us are, as it were, evolutionary mechanisms that gave a greater chance of survival to certain groups of people. That is, a tribe in which it was considered bad to eat one’s own kind had a greater chance of survival. Not because they could not eat each other, but because this way a large number of diseases that are not transmitted in any other way are not spread. And societies that practiced cannibalism were more susceptible to epidemiological risk. And this applies to everything else. This set of rules seems to us to be given from above, but in fact it is simply an evolutionary mechanism. Tribes that professed other rules simply died out; their chances of survival were lower. Based on this, it is very easy to move on to human values, because it is easy to understand that there are some rules that are more ancient and more rigid, for example, cannibalism, and there are rules that are much less ancient and less rigid. Evolution has not had time to make a selection and figure out which of these rules is good and which is bad. That is, to what extent pornography reduces the chances of survival for a given group of people. Evolution has not had time to make this conclusion. It needs another hundred thousand years, so to speak. But this is about universal human values. And therefore, in fact, there are very few such very, very universal human values.
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