Jesus. They're still living in the stone age..

Jesus. They're still living in the stone age..

It's filled. Sorry for attemtping to lighten the situation when our fellow human beings are comitting atrocities such as that.. For the last two thousand years or so.

You're inconsistent, because you simoltaneously agree and disagree with cultural relativity. And how exsactly is stoning peopel to death for adultery NOT RADICAL??? It's extremely radical.

Things like the Holocaust happen when prejudices are fed and encouraged within a society. But the ideea is that the Holocaust was expectable considering the attitude towards jews throughout the centuries. It was a cultural thing. Does that make it right? And why is genocide wrong in your opinion, and can't be subjected to cultural relativity, yet persecuting people individually isn't, and can be viewed as being culturally relative?

I can't even bring myself to be angry about this. I just feel a great emptyness when I see this.

Religion needs to be tamed, if religion in the west could largely be tamed, then surely it can be elsewhere. Its a matter of neccessity.

Moral high ground? How am I even taking the moral high ground here? To be perfectly honest I couldn't possibly care less about what happens on the other side of the world, especially in third world countries. All I'm trying to say is countries have a right to make their own laws; and somehow that gave people the idea that I therefore think genocide is okay.

People here seem to think that the public opinion was for the genocide of Jews in Germany. Yeah people voted for the National Socialist (Nazi) party but its not like they voted for Hitler based on a platform or promise that he could eliminate Jews. 

And yeah I agree stoning to death is wrong, I'm not against the death penalty, but stoning is pretty barbaric

It really sounds like you're just trying to be difficult here. You took a simple statement I made about national sovereignty and turn it into an argument over genocide and persecution. 

And you call me inconsistent because I don't care about a person who broke the law in another country being stoned but I "draw the line" at genocide? So you'd be happier if I was for genocide because then I wouldn't be inconsistend?

You are inconsistent. Why do you care that a sovereign nation decides that X group of people needs to be eliminated? By your logic it's their right to do so, and not any other nation's business. That's if you go by any logic of course.

Just to lighten the mood here... a little. :l