Reply #15: I've heard the same argument advanced [View All]

[burnsei sensei]

to excuse the murder of Mathew Shepard.
To excuse the flying of the Confederate flag from state house domes.
To excuse hundreds of thousands of lynchings in American history.
To excuse the slaughter on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the bombing that killed four schoolgirls in Birmingham.
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Each culture may have some distinctive, more rare value.
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Sometimes, rare, distinctive and may I say, even refined values must take a back seat to ethics.
What is wrong remains wrong-- fathers who murder their children are murderers.
It's not like he hit a fly.