Debate between a user and Christopher Hitchens on DebateAI.org
Christopher Hitchens
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are all cultures equally valid morally?". Your opponent's style: Christopher Hitchens
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it always seems impossible untill its done
Christopher Hitchens
That's a pleasant sentiment, but it's also how we justify moral relativism—and that's precisely the trap. You're implying that because difficult things become possible, all cultural practices eventually become morally acceptable. Nonsense. Some things *should* remain impossible. Slavery seemed inevitable until abolitionists made it otherwise. Female genital mutilation still happens—normalizing it as "just another culture's way" doesn't make it valid, it makes you complicit. The hard part isn't doing what's difficult; it's having the moral spine to say certain practices are simply wrong, regardless of tradition or cultural attachment. Some doors shouldn't open just because we've learned how.