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Reged: 11/11/03
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Loc: Wakefield, West Yorks, UK.
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Re: Really? Some cultures are beyond help.
01/03/11 12:48 AM
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> 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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