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Originally Posted by kennyc
"We" is a different culture than the Mayans the cultural norms may be different.
If "we" is the majority then yes, "we" agree that he is a great writer. But in that comparison you have also equated great writer = good literature.
Not sure that is necessarily the case.
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So, are you saying that it was perfectly acceptable for the Mayans to sacrifice human beings? What if most of the people in our society decided that it was okay to keep black people as slaves? Would that be okay, because it is a "norm?" Ethically, would slavery be right and proper?
The Nazis thought that their institutionalized racism and murder was ethically proper- because they believed in it properness, was it truly proper? Racism was a cultural norm in that society- so it was okay?