"...We all need to understand our common humanity--which is another way of saying that none of us has a monopoly on either virtue or vice...." DK
Such an idea as a common humanity has been a distinctly Western delusion.
Its correlative, that none of us has a monopoly on either virtue or vice, equally delusional.
Oddly, these delusions cut against other Western intellectual ideas:
In fact, in terms of Western Enlightenment objective natural and social science principles themselves, there should be a right answer to such questions as which civilization is better or worse than another, and how human beings shake out bioligically and genetically.
One will not ever begin to convince those civilizations, or nations, however one characterizes them (they each think of themselves as its own civilization not nation), of yellow color, that either way of saying this is true at all, either that there is such a thing as a common humanity in the first place, or that none of "us" has a monopoly on either virtue or vice, in the second, simpliciter.
Both of these locutions are in their view, in Krugman's famous words, flatly wrong.
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