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Well, sure, not everyone follows the moral code of their culture. It is like if the Jones family tells their misbehaving son “this is not how Jones’ behave” and
by pfannkuchen 3y ago
Well, sure, not everyone follows the moral code of their culture. It is like if the Jones family tells their misbehaving son “this is not how Jones’ behave” and the son replies “I am a Jones and I am behaving this way, so your statement is inaccurate, QED”.
Other groups have different cultures, and it is reasonable to speak for one’s own group and one’s own cultural moral code. It is only offensive if you believe European values are universal - do you? I am a moral relativist, personally.
- maxerickson 3y agoThat's sort of the offensive part, that the claimed culture meaningfully exists and also does not engage in the criticized behavior. Both are wrong.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoIt’s offensive that a pan European base culture exists? Have you met people from many different European countries? They are different, but compared to non-European cultural groups they have an absolutely tremendous amount in common culturally. There is no claim that Europeans do not engage in whatever immoral behavior. The claim is simply that European culture prohibits whatever behavior, even though of course this rule does get violated by Europeans (as all moral rules do get violated by whatever groups hold the rules). Moving countries or continents does not delete one’s base culture, it’s weird that people pretend it does…