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Originally Posted by Skinwalker
In my original post, I referred to statistics which are practiced in today's modern world. I wasn't comparing societies. By modern in this sense, I was referring to what is happening in various countries today, as in this century or even in the latter part of the 20th century, hence this link: UNdata etc
In Yemen, the age of marriage is 15, so what happened to this girl is an atrocity.
So in regards to this thread, my use of modern refers to the 21st century. What happened in the past should be left in the past. Hanabali's statement about Christian and Judaic law is outdated in this sense, and that is what I meant. |
So modernity is defined by what other countries are doing? So in the 1930s, modernity would be defined by either right-wing or leftist movements. In the 1800s, by militarism and state expansion, etc. That seems incredibly subjective. If modernity is merely defined by contemporary consensus and such a consensus shifts every few years, that can hardly provide the basis for a morally "superior" system.
There has to be more to modernity then merely contemporary consensus between various nations on certain legal issues.