Norms do usually contain taboos, but there isn’t any particular reason that we have to. Should that category be deleted, or do we have things that we think should be taboo?
One that springs to mind as a possibility would be the use of the Dark Arts.
edit—I was thinking that our list of endorsed beliefs would be slightly more basic, things like ‘rationality is worth pursuing’ or something. http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,106-1-2-1,FF.html is the small amount of norms that the LDS church has codified as an easy reference to point potential converts to, and while I don’t like the idea of converting people, being able to point to a set of beliefs that sounds boringly sane might be a good thing.
Codifying taboos seems reasonable if we’re codifying norms in general—taboos are basically norms of not doing certain things, after all.
We seem to have a pretty strong norm of not lying to each other, and a weaker (and possibly not generally endorsed) norm of not talking about any religious or spiritual practices that we might have.
Oh, so it isn’t. Oops. Hm.
Norms do usually contain taboos, but there isn’t any particular reason that we have to. Should that category be deleted, or do we have things that we think should be taboo?
One that springs to mind as a possibility would be the use of the Dark Arts.
edit—I was thinking that our list of endorsed beliefs would be slightly more basic, things like ‘rationality is worth pursuing’ or something. http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,106-1-2-1,FF.html is the small amount of norms that the LDS church has codified as an easy reference to point potential converts to, and while I don’t like the idea of converting people, being able to point to a set of beliefs that sounds boringly sane might be a good thing.
Codifying taboos seems reasonable if we’re codifying norms in general—taboos are basically norms of not doing certain things, after all.
We seem to have a pretty strong norm of not lying to each other, and a weaker (and possibly not generally endorsed) norm of not talking about any religious or spiritual practices that we might have.
Not lying to each other sounds like a very good one.