Why are we Scandinavians seen as immoral?
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No matter where you go, you will find those who revel in disliking people that are different. It makes them feel superior. Sad really.\n\nFew Americans hold the views you think. That's a caricature promulgated by the ultra conservatives, and maybe a few morons thrown in for good measure. Being more liberal on many things makes you seem to be the enemy, so they demonize you.\n\nMost of us respect your culture, and some of us envy many elements of it.
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I believe that along with the freedom of speech comes the responsibility to respect other people and their beliefs.  The prophet Mohammed is not the Danish people's prophet to blaspheme, and they should respect Muslim beliefs.  I'm not Muslim, but I try to respect what others believe, because I would hope to get the same respect myself.  It upsets me when people make a mockery of Christ.  If you don't believe, then just leave it alone.
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Most Americans have great respect for everyone who is rational, productive, and self-sufficient. This also means anyone who does you harm should be served justice in the interest of protecting free principles.\n\nThe problem is that everyone BUT Americans seem to eat up whatever the media says, or they lack the education to realize that Americans are like any other human being. We live for our happiness and productive achievement, and we highly value our liberty and security.\n\nAny actions we take are a result of that love for freedom and that moral pursuit. We do not tolerate socialism, facism, or totalitarianism, but rather open and mutually beneficial relationships and trade.
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LOL. Ah! Sensationalism and Prejudice!\n\nIt's really sad in a way. So many are like that.\nI am from two very different cultures, and was raised to look at the indvidual, and not the label.\nI taught my sons the same values.\n\nI was Blessed with Beautiful Parents.
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They are just perceptions and only relative to each person.\n\n2000 years ago, is was moral to have slaves. \n100 years ago, it was moral to listen to your pope.\n400 years ago, it was moral to listen to your king.\n\neveryone has a different morality, regardless of religon or culture.
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It is their foundation.  I sometimes wonder if arguing with someone about their core beliefs is moral.  if I ever convinced someone that they aren't going to Heaven, and the most powerful thing ever (God) doesn't love them, they would probably not feel good.  Of course, there are psychiatrists all over the world trying to convince people they are not God, or Jesus, or Napoleon, so I am immoral with company.
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You hit the nail on the head,other countries always claim that we are arrogant and we are too religious or not religious enough,we are too strict or not strict enough.They way I look at it..,dont worry about my backyard until you clean your own.
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WE are taught in scripture that we are to love the sinner and hate the sin.  So you are not wrong to feel the way you do.  And I agree it is destroying the foundations of civilization, as it always has every great civilization in history before they came crumbling down as it became more acceptable.
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I think they are people just like any other people.  They have a rich history and long standing traditions.  As with any other sector of the population, there are good-hearted people and evil-hearted people; there are wealthy and poor.  They suffer illness and lose loved ones;  they celebrate weddings and births.\n\nWhy must we continue to separate every culture by looking for differences?   People are people are people are people.  All races, cultures, sectors, whatever word you want to use to break people into sections, are basically the same.\n\nThe belief systems may differ; the social structure may differ; the definition of "good manners" and "good breeding" may differ; but, under it all, we are all just people and everyone deserves respect until an INDIVIDUAL does something that causes them to lose the respect of others.
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Because that's the primary thing that we know. Our own ethnocentricity is what we were raised to know about. It surrounds us as children and is what many times motivates our moral and ethical decisions. It's almost hardwired into us and for some is almost impossible to overcome. Others find it easier, thank goodness. Hope this answered your question.
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I agree you should life your life to the highest moral standards you can.  Do what's right to the best of your knowledge and ability.  judging and preaching others is not part of that however. Who told you all this?  Can you speak from experience?  And what does this question have to do with imgration??
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Right Wingers are not righteous, they are Pecksniffian. "Michael A. Fischer" http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/\n\nLeft Wingers are not immoral, they have a moral obligation to point out the religiosity of the Fiscal Conservatives. \n\nYou in the middle, should stay a silent majority, and keep buying the commercials products, but for the sake of your country, get out and VOTE!
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There are many things in the world that are not deserving of respect.  However, most everything is deserving of tolerance and, most of all, rational consideration.\n\nIf you want to be respectful towards everything, you're going to have to respect murderers, rapists, etc., etc., people who don't, in my opinion, deserve it.
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Ah, that is a very good question and has been asked since very old times. To answer it is very difficult but I shall try my best. \nPerhaps it is because we are not perfect. In second place, people love themselves more than their neighbor, but they trick themselves into believing that what they do is correct because it is them who are doing it ( here is a matter of EGO ). NOBODY, not even the most ferocious criminals think of themselves as being bad people. They justify themselves, let's say, like Hitler did. Hitler created an indeology to justify what he said and did. The curious thing is that in Nurenberg, when the top nazis were on trial, not one of them used Hitler's teachings to defend themselves
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Plain and simple: people are selfish.\n\nPeople believe their way of life is superior than other ways of life.\nTherefore, if your race, religion, class, or culture is different from mine it is inferior.\nAs long as we live in a world where there are differences, there will always be prejudices, discrimination, hatred, and ethnocentrism.
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Last time I checked this was a land of freedom.\n\nI'd also like to point out that sex/nudity are completely natural, and it's our idiotic society and culture that makes these things out to be immoral and wrong.\n\nSo to answer your question, no.
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Moral values guide your decisions about the most important decisions in life.  Life and Death, War and Peace, Wrath or Compassion.  \n\nIf you generally support war, punishment, agression, violence and killing of those you hate, then you are immoral.  If you lack compassion and your actions promote a lack of compassion then you may be considered immoral.\n\nMorality is also about personal choices you make which affect others, such as lying, cheating, or bearing false witness.\n\nMorality in my view is not about consentual sexuality, dress, language or decisions about drugs or alcohol.  Those are issues of preference and control (self control and control over others.)