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To: koan who wrote (283057)	11/17/2015 10:16:16 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541747

Who doesn't know this? Aside from some over-liberal people in super liberal enclaves? The problem is, we don't run the world. There are shitty backward people all over the place. We have idiots in this country who think if a woman spreads her legs, or has them spread for her, she must bear whatever child she conceives. It's not like we don't have patriarchal morons here. They aren't allowed to act out- but they would if they could. There are many people in this country who would love a theocracy. So what, exactly, can we say to the rest of the world? Especially with the rate at which we murder each other? We're not exactly a paragon of anything. There are places in Africa where people hack off the body parts of their enemies. Where children are forced into slavery. If Maher wants brutality, the 3rd world is awash in it- and it is the product of poverty and ignorance. And "labeling" in the 1st world just seems like window dressing. They must make a choice to change. We cannot make it for them. Externally imposed change rarely works- unless the population at issue is utterly defeated and compliant (as the Germans and Japanese were following WWII).

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