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I do not know how to really answer this question because a culture can be based on questionable moral factors and no matter how many are doing something does not make it right. As we have seen in history, whole cultures have followed bad leaders. Morality is based on individual and personal conscience. Cardinal Newman, who was a convert to the Catholic faith, said we must follow our consciences even if it is ill-informed. So the matter of morality and culture is asking ourselves if we are ill-informed. Chesterson said it is not the evil in the world that does the most harm but it more about good people using bad means to attain a good end.

In things like free trade, ten Mexican bishops called it cultural death and yet free trade is practiced as if it something good. We now have cultures that live off the impoverished workers of the world and are blind to the affects of it.

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