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Re:U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys by steven2012 on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:01AM (#10251139)
Your analogy is utterly wrong and broken, because you are mistakenly calling raping young boys "cultural". It's not cultural, and it's not something that happens across all of Afghanistan, otherwise all Afghani males could be considered pedophiles. It's a select group of pedophiles that have attained military status such that they won't be prosecuted for their crimes. That's not culture, that's corruption.

It's the same thing with the Catholic Church. Widescale sexual abuse of young boys by priests occurred, but not because it's a cultural aspect of the Catholic Church. It's a disgusting corruption that somehow manifested itself by pedophiles that infiltrated the Church and abused their positions, just like in Afghanistan. So there's no lens of morality to view things with. What happened in both cases is that it's a crime that has grown due to widespread corruption. I'm sure you will find that a lot of money was stolen by the Afghani military as well, but theft is not cultural as well, that's corruption and abuse.

The same thing happened in the British government where a widespread sexual abuse ring was discovered recently. Is that also "cultural" aspect of British people? No, it's corruption and a heinous crime.

Re:U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys by sigma2015 on Monday September 21, 2015 @06:11AM (#10251338)
The assumption that only pedophiles rape very young children is wrong - there is a "phenomenon" of substituting preferrred sex partners with what is available.

That's why there is a rape problem in prisons which is certainly not caused by gays ...

Re:U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys by rimantas on Monday September 21, 2015 @07:10AM (#10251483)
Ok, let's talk about female genital mutilation. Will you claim that is not cultural? Or the "honor" killings? Something being a part of culture or tradition does not make it right or valuable.
Re:U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys by erikb on Monday September 21, 2015 @08:54AM (#10251842)
>you are mistakenly calling raping young boys "cultural".

I'm not.