Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
by ewzimm on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @08:14AM
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Unfortunately, there's so much bigotry in the world that it's difficult to separate different types of criticism of large areas of the world, but it's entirely possible to be positive about Middle Eastern cultures and strongly against the power structures there. For example, they have great food and literature, but you can be whipped to death for publicly criticizing unelected rulers in places like Qatar. It's not necessarily culturally insensitive to say that's backwards policy.
Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
by Karunamon on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:47AM
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You can't objectively label different cultures as not being advanced just because they're different.
When that culture normalizes things like throwing acid at rape victims and violent mass retribution for violation of religious laws, well, yes, I can and will label that culture as being backwards and primitive.
If we really had complete sexual freedom and didn't impose legal restrictions on it to protect human emotion then rape would be nothing worse than other kinds of physical force, even for children. Maybe that's how an even more advanced would see it?