Look at what warfare was like in China or Japan before major Western influences (not that is was much better after Western influences).
Vastly inferior to, say, warfare as practiced by 14th-century England, I’m sure. I also point you towards the Rape of Nanking.
Compare that with any group besides “The West”. They would do much worse things and not even bother angsting about it.
You are comparing modern westerners with historical Buddhists. Try considering contemporary Buddhists (the group it is blindingly obvious I was referring to, given that the discussion was about the present and whether contempary non-western groups all lack moral qualms about torture).
I observe that you are being defensive.
You seem to have made two logical errors here. First, “This belief is extreme” does not imply “This belief is true”, but neither does it imply “This belief is false”. You shouldn’t divide beliefs into “extreme” and “non-extreme” buckets and treat them differently.
Second, you seem to be using “extreme” to mean both “involving very high confidence” and “seen as radical”, the latter of which you might mean to be “in favour of a proposition I assign a very low prior probability”.
Restating my first objection, “This belief has prior odds of 1:1024” is exactly 10 bits of evidence against the belief. You can’t use that information to update the probability downward, because −10 bits is “extreme”, any more than you can update the probability upward because −10 bits is “extreme”. If you could do that, you would have a prior that immediately requires updating based on its own content (so it’s not your real prior), and I’m pretty sure you would either get stuck in infinite loops of lowering and raising the probability of some particular belief (based on whether it is “extreme” or not), or else be able to pump out infinite evidence for or against some belief.