Defining morality

Hmm interesting

"In determining morality, American society tends to apply the bottom-line principle, 'does it hurt anyone else?' Thus pornography is legal, but not if it involves explicit violence or child molestation. You can get legally drunk as long as you do not break your neighbour's window or drive a car, endangering others. Violence on television is okay, because everyone knows the characters are just acting. Whereas we define 'hurt' in the most physical terms, Islamic societies see it in more spiritual terms. In that deeper sense, what could be more harmful than divorce, say or pornography, or violence-as-entertainment, or even the cynical depiction of banal evil on television soap operas? It is from this vantage point that the US has gained its reputation as 'the Great Satan'." - Philip Yancey