Is crime relative or absolute?

Answer

Looking historically as well as across cultures, the argument can be made that crime is relative.

-historical examples of the relativism would include anything heretical in times of a church-dominated political structure

-cross-cultural examples of the relativism would include polygamy, drug use, prostitution (all legal to varying degrees in some cultures and areas of the world but not in others)

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