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> It's their culture, their country, do we have a moral right to say country barbaric for their cultural norms they accepted for hundreds of years? Yes, who am
by lordnacho 4y ago
> It's their culture, their country, do we have a moral right to say country barbaric for their cultural norms they accepted for hundreds of years?
Yes, who am I to say that throwing a virgin into a volcano to please the fire god is barbaric? They've done it for hundreds of years!
You know what's barbaric? Abolitionism! Slavery has been part of our society for hundreds of years, and that fellow Wilberforce thinks he can just overturn our norms by an act of parliament?
- brobdingnagians 4y agoIf you dig below the surface a little bit,most countries are barbaric, and not just by culturally relative things. Just one of many examples, the US openly tortures innocent individuals, persecutes journalists, and has started more wars in the last century than any other country. That's pretty warlike and barbaric, but if the entire world decided to boycott and sanction the US, Americans would throw a tantrum and rant about being the beacon of democracy and all good things.
- lordnacho 4y agoBut we are free to point out that the US has a bunch of people in jail for minor crimes, they still has the death penalty, lacks abortion availability in many places, bullies other countries, and so on. We don't keep our mouths shut about that just because it's a foreign culture.