Things Never Change

Doesn't this just give you that warm, fuzzy feeling?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/27/build/world/98-opium-crop.inc" target="_new">Harvest of opium crop begins in Afghanistan</a><br />n<br />nIn more news from Afghanistan I find this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_HONOR_KILLING?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&reload=true" target="_new">Afghan Woman Killed for Alleged Adultery</a><br />n<br />nOur Army went in and did a great job of kicking the bad guys out. I would like to know how do we change the culture to make such things unacceptable? Both of these things are accepted practices in the culture so the way they look at things has to be changed I just wish I knew how to do this. Maybe someday it will change. I hope so.<br />n<br />n<b>A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least. Jacques Barzun</b>