Cognitive dissonance at its finest- just to be clear, I have nothing against homosexuality, it’s the pedophilia and the treatment of women as sub-human there that irks me.[/quote]
Making a course correction, based on the the forums rules, is this not just another example of the difficulties in international and global ethical relativism in the modern era?
Are our values any more appropriate than theirs? Here is a good example. We continue to lambaste other counties about human smuggling and trafficking but choose not to end the same practice that is occurring on our own border. What is a crime overseas is considered a politically acceptable form of migration here. The example given from Afghanistan is no different regardless of how horrible I think it is.