I believe there a few absolute right and wrong rules. Most ethical issues are subject to cultural relativity. Basically, you are free to do what you want as long as you are not inhibiting another's freedom. Now, there is no way that two people can live the same hemisphere with there being some conflict over whose freedom trumps the other.
Here the absolute rules I came up with:
1) Murder is wrong. Now, murder is not the same as killing. Some killing is appropriate and very moral. The intentional killing of an innocent is murder, and it is wrong.
2) Rape is wrong. Period. Maintaing the race is not justification.
3) False imprisonment and slavery are wrong.
4) Abusing children is wrong. What consititutes abuse and not discipline is open to some debate, but clearly abusing children for sexual or other reasons can not be justified.
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"
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