GReg:

I would never even try, let alone maintain, such a position. Who do you think I am?

My only point, which you seem not to address, is that you cannot assess another's morality without understanding the framework in which they were operating.

My point isn't that you make moral judgements -- we all do, and we do the best we can. But where those judgements come from -- what assumptions about the world they are based on -- is not something that should be left uninspected or left out of the account.

Isabella committed what look like atrocities to me, or condoned them. I think naming her a saint is about as ridiculous as anything I ever heard of. But I have to acknowledge Nicole's point: Isabella and her husband were raised with a completely different body of ignorance than the one that I live with. That makes a lot of difference.

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