Yes there are natural norms. As anyone who travels the world discoveres. or rath

Yes there are natural norms. As anyone who travels the world discoveres. or rather there are natural rules that produce a spectrum of norms in a given demographic composition in a given geography in a given civilization at a given level of development. In other words, the rules are the same, but the expression of them varies – because all ‘normal rules’ are negatives, but we immitate positives so we frame norms as positive particulars instead of negative universals – which is why people have ‘gotten ethics wrong’ for thousands of years. Ethics, like Science, Like Logic is entirely falsificationary (via negativa). We just imitate the positiva because it’s easier to understand and imitate – and moreover doesn’t ‘train’ us in what the negatives are, so we are less likely to explore them.

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