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::::From a Christian perspective (and trust me, east Asian Christians are as adamant about this as anyone else), they're both sinful, but the means of proselytizing to them would obviously be very different. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 10:38, 20 January 2010 (EST)

::::From a Christian perspective (and trust me, east Asian Christians are as adamant about this as anyone else), they're both sinful, but the means of proselytizing to them would obviously be very different. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 10:38, 20 January 2010 (EST)

:::Certainly, there is a difference in [[motivation]], and that must always be taken into account when discussing [[ethics]]. A simply example is killing a person: there's a huge difference between [[self-defense]]; an accident; [[negligent homicide]]; and [[murder]] (not to mention legally sanctioned [[acts of war]]). But ...

:::Certainly, there is a difference in [[motivation]], and that must always be taken into account when discussing [[ethics]]. A simple example is killing a person: there's a huge difference between [[self-defense]]; an accident; [[negligent homicide]]; and [[murder]] (not to mention legally sanctioned [[acts of war]]). But regarding the issue of [[child molestation]] ...

:::*The question is, if sleeping with a nine year old child was not deemed bad and therefore was not considered immoral, was it ok? Not everything that a society accepts as moral is right. Having sex with a minor may not have been immoral for Arabs 1400 years ago, but it is now, as it was then, unethical. Moralities are defined by circumstances, but ethics transcend time and space.  

:::*The question is, if sleeping with a nine year old child was not deemed bad and therefore was not considered immoral, was it ok? Not everything that a society accepts as moral is right. Having sex with a minor may not have been immoral for Arabs 1400 years ago, but it is now, as it was then, unethical. Moralities are defined by circumstances, but ethics transcend time and space.  

:::We've opened a can of worms, so let's be good biologists and classify them instead of throwing them under the plow. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] ^{[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]} 10:42, 20 January 2010 (EST)

:::We've opened a can of worms, so let's be good biologists and classify them instead of throwing them under the plow. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] ^{[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]} 10:44, 20 January 2010 (EST)