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presumably amongst a community of believers there'd be no distinction between beneficial outcomes and following the god character's latest whim (old testament stylee)...these ethical questions quickly get circular though. ethics is an expression of a consensus that because it's instituted functions to generate consensus. the relativism argument isn't really any different from the god character structurally---it simply places some arbitrarily defined community which is a community a priori because it agrees on certain positions vis-a-vis, in that case "the saudis" in a position to pass judgment on "the saudis" in the name of their "ethics"---which are merely the expression of the consensus that made of them a community in the first place. it's like the scorpion and the frog story.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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