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It's one of the fundamental aspects of being a toddler. Then your parents teach you to stop gagging when eating foods you find repulsive and you realize there w

It's one of the fundamental aspects of being a toddler. Then your parents teach you to stop gagging when eating foods you find repulsive and you realize there were other qualities to that food that you can appreciate. Then your parents make you do your homework despite you putting up a resistance and you at some point realize how beneficial that homework was. Then you somehow end up in college where hopefully, in the American system at least, they teach you about other cultures and how silly it is to judge other cultures for things you've only taken a cursory glance at. That is, any group can arbitrarily make up rules and belief systems that point in any arbitrary direction. Just because you happen to be apart of a larger group, doesn't mean yours are any better than anyone elses. A simple example can be summed up with the mutilation of genitals. At a first glance an uneducated person would probably say "no, that's completely wrong, I don't care what anyone says, there is something fundamentally crazy about mutilating your genitals." An educated person would have at least taken 10 minutes to hear out that, some people are born believing their sex is incorrect and to help them live a better life they sometimes modify their genitals to match the sex they believe themselves to be.

z0r 9y ago
Is your post satirical? It is easy to over apply abstract ideals if you let yourself. One person's objection to the mistreatment of animals isn't a toddler refusing broccoli, it's a reflection of cultural value. If you weren't blinded by cognitive dissonance you'd at least recognize that feeling of disgust is no better or worse than the mistreatment (or acceptable cultural ritual) of the bear and would abstain from judging the parent posters. Fortunately the kind of apathetic moral relativism you're espousing rings hollow for most.

z0r 9y ago

Is your post satirical? It is easy to over apply abstract ideals if you let yourself. One person's objection to the mistreatment of animals isn't a toddler refusing broccoli, it's a reflection of cultural value. If you weren't blinded by cognitive dissonance you'd at least recognize that feeling of disgust is no better or worse than the mistreatment (or acceptable cultural ritual) of the bear and would abstain from judging the parent posters. Fortunately the kind of apathetic moral relativism you're espousing rings hollow for most.