Torbjorn Tannsjo Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Russia, Usa

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Punishment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us to transcend our own narrow cultural horizon.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Views, May, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  People, May, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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