Taliban stoning to death of man and woman for adultery

[Chairman-Mao]

NKAJ said:

Chairman-Mao said:

Look I know their society seems backwards to us with laws like this, but even so; the law is the law. She knew adultery was wrong in her society and she chose to do it anyways and paid for it. 

Maybe there's a society out there where stealing isn't wrong and they think we're retarded for punishing thieves?

Just because the law is the law does not mean that we shouldn't question it and don't go all "cultural relativity" on this subject. If you really wanted to go down the "maybe there's a society..." route then imagine this; we always say that we should be tolerant of other people's values but what if we encounter a society which doesn't value tolerance. Who are we to then say that they should be tolerant and who are you to say that we should be tolerant of their laws. 

Cultural relativity is used far too often as an excuse to let  bad  things happen, however on the other hand we  can't pretend to be so high and mighty ourselves,it's a balance between the two.

At the end of the day,the woman should not have been stoned to death for that, being put in prison would have been more appropriate.

Its not our place to govern other countries. If we start calling them wrong then there will be no such thing as sovereignty.