It's completely incoherent too. The people who argue that we must respect different moral values in other cultures because cultures can only be judged by their own standards are usually the same people who say we live in a rape culture and that it must be changed. https://twitter.com/HarveyBarker5/status/995784877004881920 …
Individuals should be treated as individuals, yes. No-one has to examine cultures at all but it helps if you want to change them. A culture will not tell us anything about any specific individual. In every culture which condemns homosexuality, there will be people fighting that.
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I think cultures as a whole have always denounced homosexuality on the basis that it is not "natural". The individual, as opposed to the mass culture, will change
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That will be a cultural change - lots of individuals of the same mind. The zeitgeist changes. We can still treat individuals as individuals and cultures as cultures. That was we can support liberal individuals trying to change their culture for the better. See Saudi Arabia
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