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Something that is common to all societies through time is the general belief that their own way of life and beliefs are the best.

This is bad way of thinking in many ways, becasue it blinds one to good things from other cultures, and to the bad things your culture may do.



I forgot to add that while you were trying to describe absolutism in this quote, you basically summed up in a nutshell your entire 'critical thinking in america' post. Where you're the only one who's right, and anyone who disagrees is ignorant, blah blah blah. Further evidence that some people with a relativist view are contradicting.

"The task force finds that...the unborn child is a whole human being from the moment of fertilization, that all abortions terminate the life of a human being, and that the unborn child is a separate human patient under the care of modern medicine."