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Originally Posted by TGS
Dodgy ground I think - female circumcision, ethnic cleansing, torturing people in prison, keeping slaves, certain interpretations of jihad; all candidates for being morally indefensible yet not thought to be wrong in/by the societies in which they are practiced. Would agree if you were saying that what is illegal is what the society you live in says is illegal - but that's a different thing - not all illegal things are morally wrong, and not all morally wrong things are illegal.
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Again, only true if you believe in absolutes of right and wrong. It doesn't matter what the act or behavior is, the law of society (whether written down or not) is what determines what is right or wrong based on the morals and ethics of that society.
It's no different than what I said about criminals -- for them (individually) what they do is right to them.