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    #21
    Originally posted by Gibbon View Post

    Is is permissible to point out to an erstwhile accuser that your descendants were slave owners of his/her descendants that his/hers were slave traders?
    There is only one slavery that committed by the Europeans - Kerrching!

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      #22
      I’m Welsh and so is my wife. And you SKB are indeed a sad little man if you think that’s an insult.
      "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
      - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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        #23
        Originally posted by JustKeepSwimming View Post

        Cultural change by coercion is fundamentally bad, even if you think it is morally justifiable.
        No it's not fundamentally bad. It all depends on the cultural thing that is being changed. As morals change some cultural items may become more or less 'good'. But culture is by it's very nature enforced anyway so forcibly changing it is morally neutral.

        Some examples that are relevant to todays morality
        1) Banning of cannibalism
        2) Banning FGM
        3) Abolition of slavery
        4) Legalisation of homosexuality (100 years ago this was different)
        See You Next Tuesday

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          #24
          Originally posted by cojak View Post
          I’m Welsh and so is my wife. And you SKB are indeed a sad little man if you think that’s an insult.
          you are catching on!

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            #25
            Originally posted by cojak View Post
            I’m Welsh and so is my wife. And you SKB are indeed a sad little man if you think that’s an insult.
            Why is Wales so hilly? They took so much land from the English they had to put it somewhere...
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #26
              Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

              Why is Wales so hilly? They took so much land from the English they had to put it somewhere...
              You really don't have any concept of either history or reality, do you...
              Blog? What blog...?

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                #27
                Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

                Why is Wales so hilly? They took so much land from the English they had to put it somewhere...
                If Wales was flattened out it would be bigger than England

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by cojak View Post
                  I’m Welsh and so is my wife. And you SKB are indeed a sad little man if you think that’s an insult.
                  if i think what is an insult? i was merely trying to ascertain why he was so miserable and humourless. nowt wrong wi' that.

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

                    if i think what is an insult? i was merely trying to ascertain why he was so miserable and humourless. nowt wrong wi' that.
                    Why are you so nasty and miserable?

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                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Lance View Post

                      No it's not fundamentally bad. It all depends on the cultural thing that is being changed. As morals change some cultural items may become more or less 'good'. But culture is by it's very nature enforced anyway so forcibly changing it is morally neutral.

                      Some examples that are relevant to todays morality
                      1) Banning of cannibalism
                      2) Banning FGM
                      3) Abolition of slavery
                      4) Legalisation of homosexuality (100 years ago this was different)
                      You're just saying your morality is superior to the savages so you get to decide what is and isn't an acceptable cultural practice for the savages to engage in.

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