<<It seems axiomatic that whatever a society accepts as moral and right is moral and right to them. They make it so by their acceptance.>>
In the case of unfree societies in which any manifestation of non-acceptance by the masses of citizens (of, for example, suppression of dissent, lack of due process, forced labor, religious persecution) would be severely punished by the powerful few, the axiom would seem to require work.
I am guessing you mean that if there were universal acceptance by the members of the culture that torture was a legitimate investigatory tool, then in that culture, to them, it is. It's their rule, they must like it, IWO.
But we can still say their rule sucks, and mean it, and (as with Amnesty International) try to persuade them their rule sucks; or at least that their rule is going to cost them something because of how many outside of their culture think it sucks. |
