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Kids are kids always have been
Poorly behaving children are a product of bad parenting.
Some people are terrible parents, I like to think I am not one of them.
No thankyou!
he phony war over the EU is nearly over – wiat for Trump-style bullying to take over big-time to convince us that the dead and mangled in the crash deserve it.
You can hardly compare the above with child sacrifice
Welcome to the wonderful world of cultural relativism, where you can justify child sacrifice and executing gay people.
This is actually something that is used by some governments (Sweden) worryingly.
However, it seems you are not willing to do this, to go to other cultures and embrace it and integrate to it. Maybe that too is valid.
I wasn’t actually born in Britain, I didn’t speak a word of English when I moved here. I had to integrate into the culture myself. But you are correct that I wouldn’t choose to live in a culture that was in opposition to, so I don’t.
You think that British people are not allowed to change Saudi culture. Are British people allowed to change British culture? Is a French person living in Britain (me, argueably) allowed to change British culture?
Our British culture as wonderful as it may be, to us, is incompatible with the rest of the world. We are just Little Britain, we dont rule the world, anymore. Planet Earth is a very diverse place and long may it remain so.
Most developed countries have at least a legal system which is based on case law, which is British, so they aren’t that incompatible with us in the same way that for instance Saudi is with Sharia law. I don’t like the culture in Pakistan, but I have friends who live there. I can get along with them because they understand the way their country operates is wrong and we share common values.
I don’t understand cultural relativism at all. So where do you think British culture exists? Is Northern Ireland part of British culture? Is the culture in Northern Ireland different than the culture in England? If they are different how can they both be part of British culture? If someone living on the border walks down the street and into Scotland do they stop being part of English culture? Are people in Wales who speak Welsh wrong because they don’t speak the cultural language of Britain, which is English? Or should English speaking Welsh people only speak welsh because it’s Welsh culture?
How do you define any of this?
Cultures don’t exist in isolation to each other, and two oposing cultures can’t just ignore each other when they overlap.
In Saudi Arabia and countries where its illegal to be gay and punishable by execution I do yes, I feel I have to respect their culture and way of doing things no matter how different it is to my way of thinking.
“Executing gay people is something we have to respect” … right
If you were born in Saudi Arabia, no doubt you’d approve of gay executions.
Perhaps, but I would probably still be gay if I was born with the same genetics so I wouldn’t approve of my own execution.
But I will ignore this for now, and I will ask you something else. Where does culture stop? If someone moves from Saudi Arabia to the UK, is it still okay for them to execute gay people? If its not, then why isn’t it? It’s still their culture.
It does in Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Thats the way they do things.
You are litterally defending the execution of gay people.
In your ethnocentric way of thinking then yes they are
Is that your way of saying “The brown people don’t know any better”, I don’t see how else you could read that.
You contradict yourself again, I do hate to press the point, you automatically dismissed my link out of hand and directly quoted the police stating “there was no evidence” but now you are claiming the police “won’t always investigate”. Which is it?
The police not investigating was a reply to what Tapioca said earlier. I don’t see how it is related to what you said at all.
Its not for me to tell the Saudis to not chop thieves’ hands off, and its not for the Saudis to tell me who I can and cant shag. Neiher of us are right or wrong, just different.
No, they are wrong.
Making excuses for them is also wrong.
