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So to you, what matters as far as moral issues is what's legal? So conversely, what's illegal would be immoral.
I didn't realize that politicians had so much power as to make things moral and immoral with the stroke of a pen?

Human history shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that morality is defined not by universal absolutes but by the society which is being discussed.

There is very little symmetry between societies through history regarding morality, even those that existed in similar time periods. While the Europeans had firmly established human sacrifice as immoral, many native American groups saw it as the highest honor one could receive to be sacrificed to the Gods.

Morality is what a given group of individuals say it is.

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Posted by Jake88

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Posted on 9/1/14 at 9:45 pm to Roger Klarvin

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While the Europeans had firmly established human sacrifice as immoral, many native American groups saw it as the highest honor one could receive to be sacrificed to the Gods

And how are those groups doing today? Does the morality chosen by a given group allow it to prosper more than others and, thereby indicate the more correct moral code?

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Posted by Jim Rockford

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Posted on 9/1/14 at 11:38 pm to Roger Klarvin

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There is very little symmetry between societies through history regarding morality, even those that existed in similar time periods. While the Europeans had firmly established human sacrifice as immoral, many native American groups saw it as the highest honor one could receive to be sacrificed to the Gods.

I'll go a step further. At the same time those natives were practicing human sacrifice, Europeans, who found the idea aborrent, were burning people at the stake for practicing the "wrong" flavor of Christianity. I don't see much of a distinction.

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