wheelnut wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:13 pm
There is merit in what you say (John Adams was probably right about democracy) but perhaps you would feel a bit differently if you were gay, or a woman who got pregnant outside marriage.
I've never lived in a country where there weren't gay people, or women who get pregnant outside of marriage.
Some places don't shout about it, celebrate it or use pregnancy as a means of income and housing, but it happens.
I'd agree that in some countries they aren't very hospitable about it, where I live there are well known gay bars and it's very well tolerated, but when I lived in Jamaica there were three men killed by a mob just on suspicion of being gay. Being gay in many African countries will get you killed too.
But where are we going with this? Is this a slag off the whole of the Middle East session because I compared the western invasions of the ME to a smaller invasion that Russia are involved in? Or is it just good old fashioned racism where all the forum regulars can join in on calling all the brown people savages for not sharing their frame of mind on unmarried pregnant teenagers and gay pride marches?
Is anyone capable of understanding shades of grey or are we just going wild here?
I wish I hadn't commented now.