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Originally Posted by TGWBS
Murder is allowed in some cultures in certain circumstances. The USA is one of them - Americans seem content to murder their (often mentally ill) criminals.
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Firstly, we could debate on end as to wether or not the death penalty is murder, just as we could argue on end wether or not abortion is murder, and it would get us no where. Let's not turn this into that sort of debate.
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1) That's a contradiction of terms. If it's seen as morally right by some cultures, it cannot be universally agreed that it is evil.
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Fair enough, but my point was that cultural rights and wrongs are not always equivalent to moral rights and wrongs.
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2) How exactly are women castrated?
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The clitoris is sawed off with a knife when the girl reaches puberty. This was also practiced for some time in western culture, until women's rights came into play.
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Is there any account of orcs killing just for the sake of killing? They always seem to justify it somehow in my experience.
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"It's fun," doesn't count as a justification, and really, what justification did they use that didn't boil down to that, in the end? Not to mention, justification in one's own mind does not make it right. An abusive parent usually justifies beating their child, but that doesn't make it right.