A woman and her child are taken from their home by force in the dead of night. They are taken to a shack in the woods nearby, where the child is slowly disemboweled as the mother is forced to watch. Is there any society that wouldn't have seen that as evil? What do you call this act? Are our words not up to the task?
Sure. Go back a few centuries, and things were different. They didn't have cars. The fashions were different. However, no society has ever seen the murder or rape of innocents as being acceptable. We aren't discussing wrong. We are discussing the "great evils" of our society. Let's not fall into the "everything is subjective" trap on this.
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