So not to be the bad guy or anything here, but what are the alternatives here? https://archive.is/IoaqJ
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@thesublemon That's the strongest part of the article, but I'm pretty suspicious of the claim. Really easy to cherry-pick. -
@thesublemon And look at the timeline for the English reaction to sati in India. US isn't going to stick it out 50-100 years.
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@St_Rev My reaction to this story also. Deliberate modifications to a culture that hates you are hard. -
@GrumplessGrinch There are ways to do that. They involve an awful lot of executions and tend to fail between North Africa and central Asia. -
@St_Rev Not impossible, but expensive, bloody, risky. -
@GrumplessGrinch Well, impossible for Americans. Americans don't do crucifixions as a matter of policy. -
@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch Americans generally are pretty unmoved by calls to take up the White Man's Burden. it's one of our actual virtues. -
@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch I'm a big believer in "do it right or not at all", anyway
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing One isn't supposed to act "against" it, but toward something that makes it irrelevant/powerless. -
@harmonylion1@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing that sounds horrible. If evil is not stopped it spreads. -
@soapjackal@harmonylion1@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing by definition rendering evil irrelevant and powerless does stop it -
@schakalsynthetc@harmonylion1@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing yeah that's the hope but it sounds horrible because it usually looks like ignoring -
@soapjackal@harmonylion1@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing there's always danger of rationalizing inaction by claiming powerlessness, ya -
@soapjackal@harmonylion1@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing I do see a strong case that we genuinely are mostly powerless in this instance tho -
@schakalsynthetc@harmonylion1@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing I don't go to Afghanistan for reasons like this.
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