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In response to "But neither can you say that people from an earlier era get a free pass because what they did then was considered normal. -- nm" by Roger More

that depends on the timescale too the longer ago the easier it is to get a free pass

Posted by DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11 '13, 10:40

for a roman emperor killing your family was "normal" ofcoure that don't get them off but i seems more ordenary today doing stuff like that get's you more then a 1000 years in prison

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It was only "normal" because the emperors made it normal. There are lots of Roman stories that told about how killing other family members was wrong. - Roger More Sep 11, 10:48 5
- is anyone arguing it was not wrong? - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 10:52 4
  - It's not exempt from them, but neither is it determined only by those things. -- nm - Roger More Sep 11, 10:59 3
    - if morality is not except from time how does it change? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 11:02 2
      - I'm saying there's an in-between area. You can't condemn them by our standards, but neither can you give them a free pass. Neither way works. -- nm - Roger More Sep 11, 11:16 1
        
        i doubt anyone has argues that you should give them a free pass Dawkins did'nt for sure - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 11:22
this isn't Roman times we're taking about, this is in our lifetimes. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 10:47 1
- he did also not say "it happened to me and I turned out OK" so i guess from now on we're just discussing on your own premise and discarding the real c - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 10:50

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