Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 1019 | It is not obvious that this is View more quotes about true">true. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 1016 | The inmates are taught to commend some things, and emulate certain exemplars, and so on. |
| 1 | 1017 | There is not always an easy congruence between what a civilization insists on as true, and what is, in fact, true. |
| 1 | 1018 | Consider, as an example, the view that a woman is essentially similar to a man, and thus what is appropriate for a man is appropriate for a woman. |
| 1 | 1019 | It is not obvious that this is true. |
| 1 | 1020 | It may be taught, and insisted upon, and such, perhaps even hysterically, but that, I think you will see, does not make it true. |
| 1 | 1021 | Consider, for example, matters pervasive within higher, or more complex, species, such as the ratios of dominance and submission, and then consider, too, in particular, the human species, which is clearly and radically sexually dimorphic, and in a thousand ways. |
| 1 | 1022 | Would it really seem so surprising if amongst sexes so different there might not be diverse rightnesses? What if, say, in a given species, for example, the human, nature had chosen to breed not neuters, but, say, dominants and submissives, or, to speak more clearly, masters and slaves. |
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The inmates are taught to commend some things, and emulate certain exemplars, and so on.
There is not always an easy congruence between what a civilization insists on as true, and what is, in fact, true.
Consider, as an example, the view that a woman is essentially similar to a man, and thus what is appropriate for a man is appropriate for a woman.
It is not obvious that this is true.
It may be taught, and insisted upon, and such, perhaps even hysterically, but that, I think you will see, does not make it true.
Consider, for example, matters pervasive within higher, or more complex, species, such as the ratios of dominance and submission, and then consider, too, in particular, the human species, which is clearly and radically sexually dimorphic, and in a thousand ways.
Would it really seem so surprising if amongst sexes so different there might not be diverse rightnesses? What if, say, in a given species, for example, the human, nature had chosen to breed not neuters, but, say, dominants and submissives, or, to speak more clearly, masters and slaves.
- (Kur of Gor)