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Stan: You are judging the morality and ethics of 17th century America based on today's moral and ethical standards?

KSWT was judging today's moral standards based on the morality of the Founders, and said that "we've deteriorated" since then. Considering what was legal and widely practiced in the Founders' time, their moral standards were far from superior to today's.

If one wishes to argue that moral standards are relative, varying with time and place, I would agree. Although that argument contradicts the idea that moral standards come "from a higher power" and are absolute, unchanging.