MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Really? Some cultures are beyond help.

> Not really beyond help, just out of their time.
>
> Just a hundred or so years ago we were hanging children for theft, shooting our own
> troops for refusing to commit suicide in the face of the enemy, generally still
> lopping off heads in rightous fury all in the name of god, honour and the
> Queen...pretty much in that order. Women weren't emancipated accepted or allowed to
> live as equals in the world of men, you could quite reasonably beat your wife half to
> death if you so chose - and many did. An adulterous man was tolerated, an adulterous
> woman was socially castrated, humiliated, and cast out destitute...if her husband
> didn't kill her first.
>
> A few score years before that we were still crossing the Oceans, enslaving other
> nations and forcing them to work under the whip and yoke. Genetically just an eye
> blink ago really.
>
> 2 World wars and burgeoning capitalism led to our cultural revolution otherwise we
> could still be sitting alongside the Iranians wondering at all the effort they put
> into stoning when the rope or rifle is so much less hassle.
> Large parts of the Middle East simply haven't caught up yet, but we (being western
> society) certainly don't have a moral high ground to shout at them from, we've barely
> got the blood out of our own carpets.
>
> I agree its f**king mental/evil to our 21st Century eyes, but they'll catch up
> eventually.

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