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well, for what it's worth i am not terribly interested in the category of the ethical for all these reasons. i usually work out the same kind of questions across the terrain of the political.
but if you think about it, perversely enough, absolutism (as you call it---it's a confusing term for me because it's associated with the political regime of louis xiv and makes my historian brain get all wonky) would be far more adaptable than relativism assuming that the sovereign (i shouldn't have started that...tant pis) wants a change. that's the basis for an entire theory of dictatorship, this adaptability.
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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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