| Kasz216 said: Ah, however the original point, and the point that you were trying to prove were the committing of crimes. If you don't believe in moral absolutism then you can't take any stance of moral absolutism. Since the value you are trying to get at is the number of people who are willing to commit crimes. The only way to judge this is by what each culture counts as a crime and by judging it based on that. It allows you to adjust better for cultural differences. (though is still by no means perfect.) By comparing direct crimes you are doing nothing but covering up for the commiting of non-universal crimes which is a very bad flaw in methodology. Afterall if we had great data on software piracy, should China suddenly be seen as very criminal? Even though piracy isn't seen as bad as an offense? Your methodology is about as off as it could be in this case. If your going to compare morals cross cultures you need to account for cultural differences. |
However many of the crimes committed and prosecuted for are not universally looked upon as being morally bad in Denmark or Sweden, such as drug use or piracy. Also a huge confounding factor is the number of crimes prosecuted for or counted as criminal by the country, for example while smoking cannabis may be against the law in two countries, in one country it may only lead to a criminal conviction in one.
In any case, this debate is entirely pointless, I was merely pointing out that atheism has no known relation to a lack of discipline in a population, something which you seem to agree with given your previous post.
