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Re:Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments by belorn on Thursday December 10, 2015 @11:01AM (#10711263)
Its hard to disregard that subset here in Sweden when there a government that self-identify itself as feminist.

Several years ago there was a initiative to create equality in education. Any student that was a minority in their class received a minor bonus as an incentive. The initiative was however deemed a failure when it was realized that the majority of student fulfilling the requirement was men and not women. Afterward it was sent to the courts which promptly declared the initiative as discriminative against students who weren't minorities. Now only a short time ago a new initiative was suggested by a government study, with the primary difference from the old one being that it will now only apply in studies where men are the majority.

So excuse me for having a hard time finding those old-school feminists that talks about equal rights. The only time I saw one was in a opinion piece a year ago where equal rights was described as the "old" feminism movement, and I saw a lot of hatred directed at her rather than support in the comments.

Re:Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments by throwaway7767 on Thursday December 10, 2015 @11:29AM (#10711459)
> So excuse me for having a hard time finding those old-school feminists that talks about equal rights. The only time I saw one was in a opinion piece a year ago where equal rights was described as the "old" feminism movement, and I saw a lot of hatred directed at her rather than support in the comments.

That was my point: the people most active in online discussions do not necessarily represent a majority view. They are simply the most vocal. Talk to people around you - family, friends and coworkers. Does a significant proportion of them share these beliefs?

The people most likely to comment on matters like this in online discussions are people with extreme opinions on them.

I cannot comment on the swedish initiative as I'm not familiar with it.

Re:Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments by iofj on Friday December 11, 2015 @04:55PM (#10720376)
The issue is that different races and even different value systems are ... different. In more than skin color.

The implication of that is that in any given pursuit, true equality will not create proportional representation. (And common sense tells you that fixing that with incentives is impossibly complex and therefore will never be achieved)

Re:Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments by throwaway7767 on Monday December 14, 2015 @04:37AM (#10730128)
Were you responding to anything in particular in my comment or is this just something you wanted to get off your chest?