Reading all the weaselly excuses politically-correct Westerners make for slavery in Buddhist countries is incredibly depressing.
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“The Tibetans are *good* because the Chinese are *bad*, so everyone in Tibet *must* have been free and happy and prosperous!”
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The left habitually reasons “from ought to is”: this *should* be true, therefore it *is* true. Right habitually reasons “from is to ought.”
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Since Buddhism *should* forbid slavery, obviously it *did*, so none of those slaves count! (Ignoring clear scriptural approval of slavery.)
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I was planning to write about Buddhism’s enthusiastic support for torture too, but decided that was too awful to inflict that on my readers.
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@Meaningness - read this yesterday and felt it might be relevant: http://www.paulekman.com/uncategorized/paul-ekman-on-torture/ … It's a short piece so shouldn't be too painful!!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@redpillchange Thanks!
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