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Posted by BigReg, Wed Jan-13-16 01:39 PM
Does acceptable societal behavior give someone a pass for actions that we currently deem 'fucked up'.

Normally id agree with that statement, but Im black and I got baggage since we traditionally ended up on the wrong side of that equation, lol.

For instance Brazil and Italy's age of consent is apparently 14, which seems nuts to me but apparently is culturally fine for them (insert naive speech about them being more culturally liberated then we are where it probably more so means they are backwards).

Cultural Relativism is a real thing and works even with time periods. Underaged sex with groupies were given that wink wink and a smile that other rock and roll behavior was given. Doesn't mean it's right, but it does make it different then the counter examples above who committed crimes in a cultural and social environment much closer to ours.