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Originally Posted by NoSoup
My point is, I feel that Murder, Rape, and Assaulting others is "Morally wrong" - but I also understand, and accept, that my morals don't apply to anyone else other than me. It's a good thing that I live in a country that shares the majority of my morals, but if I was traveling abroad and stumbled into an area where something I believed was morally wrong was socially acceptable there, I certainly wouldn't feel offended or think that the society as a whole were morally bankrupt or less of a people...
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You know, I can buy all this for the purpose of argument, but then here's where I go with it. Here's my personal morality.
I don't respect cultures that tolerate murder, rape, and assault. I fully support the decision of other cultures to disregard such cultural mores. As far as my moral sensibilities go - resources and tactical situations may say otherwise - I'm perfectly okay with the idea of cultures that don't support murder, rape, or assault invading those cultures that do and putting a stop to those practices. If I were, for some reason, vacationing in a culture that condoned/promoted the punishment of rape victims, I would have no twinge of conscience preventing me from attempting to prevent said punishment.
(It'd be the cowardice that would prevent me from acting, most likely.)
It sounds like you'd be morally opposed to intervention of this kind, and that's fine for you, but that morality doesn't apply to me.