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Someday I will be dead, and maybe you will want to know about the media I consumed or wanted to consume. Furthermore, while I am still living, perhaps you want ideas on gifts you could give me. Well, either way, you've come to the right place.
Jan 28, 2010
4:09pm
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
— This was said by Charles James Napier, a British officer, in regards to Sati, an Indian practice of immolating a widow with her husband’s remains. It is, in my professional estimation, the finest encapsulation of the problems of moral relativism.
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