Okay, I have difficulties giving my opinion in that kind of post normally, but here I go. Don't stab me please!
Personally, I think there is a distinction between a society's way of life and traditions, such as what's socially accepted (like relations between people, having multiple partners or not, and such) and what is morally acceptable.
I'd like to believe that morals are universal. And as such, I don't think it is humanly all right to believe that cheating is ok as long as you don't get caught. Yes, there's a saying that roughly says: "what one does not see does not hurt", and it's true, but still it does not make it right!
I believe in good and evil, that killing people is bad even if the means are good, I know everything is not white or black, there is room for interpretation, but I don't believe that anyone should believe that "the end justifies the means".
Also, let's just say I respect that belief. If one starts cheating on his wife/her husband, it's just the start of a mechanism that will utterly in almost every case end in the discovery of the truth, thus evil...
Anyway, what I mean is that I believe that some fundamentals should be respected. There is no rule of nature that says relations should be exclusive, that's part of a culture, but as humans I think that lying and killing should be universally bad.
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