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>>Sure doesn't. It's only my doubt that when we say "this is natural and that is not" we actually don't have a clue what nature thinks. We only express our... prejudice, preference, opinion or just our narrow view on common sense.
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>In George Bernard Shaw's play Caesar and Cleopatra the Egyptian priests are explaining a custom to Caesar, much to the horror of his secretary ( a Briton - whom GBS uses to satyrize the attitudes of the British middle class )
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>Caesar, whose age and experience has given him a more cosmopolitan view, says to the Egyptian high priest:
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>"Forgive him, Theodotus, for he is a barbarian and, like all members of his race he thinks that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature."


So true.
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