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Old 08-21-2009, 01:29 PM
jseal jseal is offline
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Originally Posted by Oldfart
... Whether we should interfere with someone who is as right in his mind as we are in ours is a monumental decision ...

It is indeed, and taking action should be reserved for only extreme situations. Some would claim that anyone’s “take” on the world is just as valid as any other. I would disagree with them, but I recognize that is a double-edged sword. If I claim the right (as I do) to judge and find wanting an Afghan’s entitlement to starve his wife into sexual submission, then I must, to be fair, extend to him the same right to criticize the norms of my society.

One entitlement I will not grant him or anyone else is a claim that this or that facet of some society is beyond criticism.
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