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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
People in different cultures experience shame (and guilt) in different ways and about different things. In the pre-Christian classical world, for example, nobody thought it immoral to keep slaves and use them for labour or sex. They would have been baffled if you even presented it as a moral issue. Non-Western cultures today typically don’t share our belief that a disabled person confined to a wheelchair has gained moral stature or insight relative to the abled and strong. The very ideal of universal equality sprang from Christianity. It originated as a religion of slaves, of the weak, and that permeates Western culture to its bones.
Do you think you’ve totally broken away from Christian morality, even though it permeates our politics, education, entertainment, and social movements?
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I understand your question, and the easy answer is no, I know I'm bound by the ideology, morals, etc. of where I'm from and how/when I was raised.