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catzmeow 
You mean like when Islamists decide that gays/lesbians are evil and tainted, and Allah wants them dead?
A lot of Christians, Jews atheists etc. feel the same way.
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catzmeow How is the rest of the world to respond to that sort of arrogance? Stand back, do nothing, because "that's their culture"? Or determine that, "this behavior is not acceptable, in fact, it is barbaric, and should be not be sanctioned by the civilized nations of the world."
The point is that arrogance breeds arrogance. I agree that killing/harming someone is for their views/lifestyle is WRONG. I also believe that it is somewhat universal that slavery is wrong. Either way a lot more can be accomplished with education and compassion than with outright destruction interventionism, Take your career for example, what works better bullets or talk? We in the west find stoning people because they are gay or adulterers to be offensive in
our world view. They do not. That does not give us the right to go over there and overthrow the government. It does give us a right to express our views on their society (economic sanctions etc.), it does give us right to help those who wish to escape and it does give us the right to intervene if the populace at large requests it.
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catzmeow What if the world had looked at apartheid, and said, "well, it's evil and ugly and barbaric and all, but that's their culture, and they have a way to act that way in South Africa"?
When did we invade South Africa again, I seem to have missed that.