Now consider the nature of much older societies. They found stability in their societies in different ways than today. Some found homosexuality to be wrong and sex with fourteen year-old females to be acceptable (and in fact preferable, when the life expectancy was much shorter). Who are you to tell an ancient society what is right or wrong?
Well, it’s kind of our job to see what was right and wrong in ancient civilizations.
It was not always wrong. It was in fact the better thing at the time. Where is the universal law that says pedophilia is wrong? There is none. It is wrong because we believe that sex should be consensual between those capable of making intelligent decisions (adults). But in ancient times, fully (or even mostly) developed frontal lobes were of secondary consequence, and survival of humanity took a front seat. Hence, marriage to young females was okay. My point here is that we cannot judge ancient societies by modern standards, and that they were within their right, as a society, to define what was sexually acceptable and what was not. We have changed in our modern interpretation, and that interpretation will likely change more over the centuries, where you may one day look like a backwards barbarian, but the fact remains that societies can define sexuality as they define all other rights and wrongs, and you should not measure them by your yardstick.
I think it’s OK to judge the actions of a previous generation based on our modern yardstick. Isn’t that the whole point of history?