(March 22, 2018 at 7:14 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: IDK, man. Keeping young women and girls for yourself as the spoils of war is pretty fucked up.
I think burning your babies alive is pretty fucked up. That's what these people did, and I have no problem with God judging that - after giving them 400 years to change their ways. Maybe the pro-choice crowd doesn't see it that way.
Quote:Now, I understand that all primitive cultures behaved this way. (In one sense, it's not as deplorable as it seems. And child marriage is in no way particular to Judeo-Christian society.) But you have to admit: doing something like that in modern times would be inexcusable.
We, as a society, have become more morally developed. We would never do such a thing.
You're right - Hollywood didn't cheer for Roman Polanski, who drugged and anally raped a girl. Just didn't happen.
To say we've become more morally developed means that there's an objective morality against which to judge progress. Are you the keeper of this moral code? What does it say about burning babies alive? What does it say about abortion?
