“There are tremendous actual differences in values. Some value systems, such as the ones that motivate "honor killings", deserve to be morally condemned and rejected. But there are many other variations in values within the bounds of decency.”

— Richard Stallman

"The Zeitgeist Movement" (2009) https://stallman.org/articles/zeitgeist.html
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