Reply #130: Moral Equivalency

[todwest]

I agree with you, Raven, that there is no way to justify the murder of Berg or Pearl.

I'll go you one better, though: All murder is evil. It is wrong to murder helpless civilians -- on both sides -- it is wrong to use a nation's young men and women as pawns in an illegal -- yes, illegal -- war, and it's wrong to label a culture as "barbaric" simply because they have values which we find abhorrent or cannot understand, especially as many of our values are equally abhorrent to them.

I encourage you to look up the term "cultural relativism." Right after you get done looking up "moral equivalency."