Our cultural morality, for example, has meaning for us- because we understand it, as we do a language. Do we understand the cultural morality of "strange" cultures, e.g. cultures we did not grow up in, and have never had contact with? No we do not. Does that "foreign" cultural morality not have meaning for the people of that cultural? Well, yes, it probably does.
I found the following clip in an article on the libertarian thread. I'd be interested in your reaction to it and what do we do about the gap between us and this "strange" cultural morality.
<<The terrorists [on Tuesday] . . . issued no demands, no ultimatums. They did it solely out of grievance and hatred—hatred for the values cherished in the West as freedom, tolerance, prosperity, religious pluralism and universal suffrage, but abhorred by religious fundamentalists (and not only Muslim fundamentalists) as licentiousness, corruption, greed and apostasy.">>
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