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Originally Posted by mkess101
Does something have to be accepted worldwide to be deemed acceptable? What about an island cut off for generations from the rest of the world. If their behavior is abhorrent to the rest of humanity, does it matter since they didn't interact with anyone else for decades? Were their children who suffered at the hands of these people not victims of "evil", since in their society it was deemed acceptable?
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precisely which side of this culture you're on. Looking from the outside in you're going to think it's wrong, because it's not parallel to your social morals. That part is easy to understand. Now, try a bit harder to understand it from the other cultures perspective. If the proper age for sex for country A is 18 and for country B its 14, who's wrong? If you say B, it's because you're looking at it from A's perspective. Perhaps from B's perspective, 18 might seem late. There's a near infinite number of comparisons that clash morals than just that. It's all about perspective, and the ability to understand/accept depends upon which region by sheer accident you grew up in.