HaShev
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I did a commentary on this a long time ago and posted it in the forums years ago.Exactly....Morals are community norms. Valid morals are those which assist the community to survive/prosper. Different communities have different morals.
Now that is also usually the problem.
Once upon a time when television was just getting started the program "I Love Lucy" was very popular...but Lucy and Desi didn't have a bed they shared...two twin beds even though they were married was seen in their bedroom. Because to show otherwise was too racy for the day.
Today we seem to have trouble keeping every form of sexual perversion from being broadcast and all of the actors seem to have clothing issues with keeping them on.
Then you have the news. Where the common themes are shaming public figures for incompetence, negligence, greed or philandering or showing the depravity of the dregs of society. Or even just some good old fashioned fear peddling of how bad things are outside. News is always bad... never been good.
Programming is entertainment...the average guy being an everyday good guy always gets hurt, killed, destroyed financially or something horrible. When the truth is far from that. Life is not reflected in entertainment and neither are morals that need to be learned by society.
"Christians vs the Lions" was once a popular form of entertainment. So was Asheroth worship. (Really old fashioned sex and violence) today the blood is faked and so is the love in the sex.
Even though Shakespeare was famous for quoting passages out of the Geneva Bible many people considered him to be a heretic for producing theater. Elizabeth was rather uncommitted to making moral and religious determinations as it was rather a huge political fight...and fighting was unproductive in her estimation. She was more interested in keeping the UK together.
Back in the eras as you describe it was called
"Folkways of a Community"-
Characteristics of the society of folk & how it imposes on other regions who have their own norms.
The zest of the social community somewhat depends on population size and the amount of convenience born out of the many offered services and amount of entertainment available in that community.
Community life also somewhat revolves around the cultural backround and traditions of these
communities which give those communities it’s distinct characteristics.
This structure of behavior that’s set by the primary group practice is known as
‘Folkways’.
(Characteristics of the society of folk).
These folkways seem to determine and set perceptions of what is right from wrong as well as set standards for moral and ethical code and patterns within it’s own tolerance whether rational, scientific or practicle or not.
A community based on a Christian Primary group might find certain things intolerable by their set standards, but some country in the Middle East built on Islamic
or ancient cultural traditions has built their community on it’s own backround and thus see’s those things as acceptable behavior.
To understand the issues that the Islamic Nations have with the Western Culture and in reverse how other Nations have issues with Islam imposing itself on them,
is many times based on different perspectives that those nations and conflicting cultures
do not accept nor understand as fact of life involving folkways.
Therefore they impose their values and traditions on those who have other perspectives and cultural reasons for their behavior.
Just as the secular society and minority religions hate the church forcing it’s self appointed irrational moral and ethical codes within the Politics of their nation, so to do Muslims become frustrated at these same strong armed self appointed judges of society upon their own culture.
It would be more constructive to teach your reasoning for your cultures behavior and policies, then to force or expect other cultures to follow suit. Share your rational, rather then be pretentious and rude like how progressives treat society today with cancel culture, they don't rationally share their logic, they just pretentiously and hypocritically tell you what to do or else they'll throw a tantrum till they get their way (sort of the racketeering approach).