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> Whaling is a tradition in Norway and has been going on since medieval times.

Jumping in a longboat and pillaging neighboring villages was also a Norwegian tradition in medieval times, but we find such practices barbaric today.



Eh, depends on how you frame it. Is a troop transport taking US forces over to Iraq barbaric? Depends on who you ask.


Absolutely, I'm not claiming the US doesn't participate in forms of barbarism.

We had a completely different set of unjustified justifications for the Iraq invasion, but we didn't use tradition as the excuse.




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