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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
it is a practice which contradicts HUMAN standards of decency... I dont see it as having anything to do with society. We DO have a right to intervene.
Should we stand by and watch genocide - in the 1940's should the Allies have said "well, in Nazi society, however wrong it is to us, it is ok to kill people for being Jewish or Romany or homosexual...we really have no right to enforce our morality on them"???
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No, you don't have any right to intervene because you'll be pushing your own morals and standards shaped by your society and culture. Hence, you have no idea what it's like to be a part of theirs. It's an ancient practice, so it isn't anything new or overly shocking. Comparing Nazis to this case is completely off base. One was done because of the insanity of one man and this, as I've said before is an ancient tradition practiced by more than one culture. Notice how both the mother and the father as well as other members of the family deemed it right. Are they insane? Not human? No, they were simply brought up under a different value system than you. Their government will take care of it.