"Just because behavior is foreign to your mindset does not mean it is essentially anything its just behavior. Ok if you dont like it then dont do it but if others wish to play a game that you disapprove of and they are free to leave then it should not matter."

And "compromise?" There are certain things that one simply cannot compromise with. To do so is to abdicate any pretense at ethics or morality.

Conrad, when it comes to matters of "baby killing" or declaring wars of conquest or the industrialize slaughter of "undesirable" people, yes, that kind of behavior is foreign to my mindset. And, yes, you are right. It IS "behavior. But I would hardly characterize it as "just behavior" (using "just" in whatever sense of the word you want).

Yes, it does matter. And yes, I disapprove of it. AND I disapprove of any person who can contemplate such things and dismiss either them, or the advocating of them, in any form (speech, writing, song, whatever) as something that "should not matter" as guilty of contributing to these things whenever and wherever they might happen.

It's called "moral responsibility." And Dante, in his Inferno, says that the lowest level of Hell is reserved for those who, when confronted with a moral issue of this nature, simply choose to "look the other way" or "do not want to get involved."

I hope you can enjoy it down there, because that seems to be the moral choice you have made.

After all, choosing not to choose IS a choice. Whether you like it or not.

Don Firth