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价值是文化的孩子，不同的文化必然有不同的价值观。Values are the children of a culture.

Kwin wrote:

Sep 30th 2010 9:02 GMT

What values are "universal"? Is the right to bear arms one of them? How

about the entitlement to jobs? health care? death penalty? privacy? Are

democracy in the US, in Japan are in UK the same? Should the US bring back a

queen or a king, who is above everyone else simply because a luck sperm

finds the correct target? Is this "universal" enough?

And who can claim that the Western model is the best and it would do well in

the rest of the world? What is a good testimony to that? The economic

crisis or the failing state of Afghanistan?

Values are the children of a culture. China needs to absorb western values.

But it needs to do it on its unique cultural foundation. Cloning the "

Western model" is not the answer, not when the "universal" western model

doesn't even exist.

Values are universal only when they are abstract. Nobody in China is arguing

against "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", but rather where the

boundary of "the pursuit of happiness" is in real life. This boundary is

not universal at all. Japan has the most restrictive gun laws and limits the

top speed of cars to 112mph, none of which are acceptable in the US. Even

in the US, the 2nd amendment stops people from bearing nukes and the 1st

amendment stops people from inciting riots. When an individual's pursuit

brings suffering to the others, it should stop, or be stopped.

This article reflects the typical mindset of a proselytic culture, which

itself is Western and not universal.