I agree it's a German-centric view, but I also think it's the view that matters. Beat or rape a child, and people will form an opinion of you based on your act

I agree it's a German-centric view, but I also think it's the view that matters. Beat or rape a child, and people will form an opinion of you based on your action and their views of what you did, local to their cultures. They won't say "well, your employer's local branch is more liberal than its branches in other countries", see? If you're a manager (a bishop, say) and protect your subordinate who did the beating or raping, people will again judge you by their values, German-centric in this case, not by comparing you to similar management in branches in other countries. "I'm going to stay in the church because priests here may have raped children and the bishops protected them, but the Irish branch did worse" isn't reasonable. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fnord-n1253862 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fnord-n1253862 BTW. "I'm going to leave the church because I don't see myself as the kind of person who belongs to a community where priests rape and bishops protect them" is a more reasonable sentiment, and it's local.