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Originally Posted by TimMason
...We continue these internal conversations all our lives. Some of them are purely technical: how to do this, that or the other. Others are moral: judgements about behaviour, our own and that of others. We enlarge them, to take in others. But the conversations are always embedded in social relationships, whether real or imagined. They are always local.
Because of this, the attempt to distinguish between local and universal is bound to fail. When we attempt to posit a universal rule, or to identify a universal basis for rules, we are stepping outside the realm of the possible.
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I'm a bit confused by the distinction (if there is one) between internal technical conversations and internal moral conversations.
Are the results of both purely local - so there can't be universal rules for anything?