True and true, I’m a guy and I don’t know what its like to be a women. That doesn’t change the fact that using force to change a culture is generally a bad idea and often even counter productive. So what good is advocating womens rights if your approach to it actually results in less womens rights?

Yeah and look how great forcing people to change their entire culture has gone throughout history. Some of the worst human right abuses have been committed under the pretense of forcing people and cultures to switch to a more modern understanding of civilization. Remember that your line of reasoning pretty much led to…

It being a problem is not something I disagree with you on. The way you handle the problem is.

Im not a devils advocate. I’m just pointing out that a state cannot conduct international politics if it has to get outraged about everything it doesn’t like. I’m also pointing out that it would be counter productive to said state and their moral agenda if they would do so.

Abusing the rights of their citizens? They don’t do that actually. They are only abusing peoples rights by our standards of what rights people ought to have. But just because WE think people should have those rights doesn’t mean they think people should have them. And if they aren’t codified into actual laws, well,…

If you banned guns tomorrow, the terrorist would use explosives the day after that. Maybe more people would be left standing, but the attacks would continue to occur. They would just take slightly more effort on the part of the terrorist. I’m not sure if I would call that scenario a net gain.

Counter point, America respects the internal workings of their allies justice system and the cultural differences regarding sex and what constitutes as a crime. America realizes that sovereign states get to decide for themselves how they operate within the bounds of international law, and while its fair to politely…

Or you could do both? You know, look for a little bit of nuance instead of harping on whatever political point you want to make while ignoring all the other factors that don’t suit your agenda.

Yeah, but it has more to do with how many people are around. The more people are around, the less likely they are going to help. Diffusion of responsibility its called, everyone waits for someone else to take charge.

No one is pushing for the normalization of pedophilia. At best people are arguing that we should make a better distinction between people who have the urge (since sexual preferences are not a choice) but don’t act on it and the people that have the urge and go out and rape a child. Right now society goes apeshit over…

Its a human rights thingy. Life in jail with no possibility of release is deemed inhuman. That said, possibility of release does not mean you have to be released and given the severity of his crimes, Im pretty sure he won’t ever get out.

Men of War: Assault Squad?

I disagree. Yeah games may take 20 hours of your life to complete, but in a lot of games most of those 20 hours consists of repeating the same gameplay loop over and over again. While in a game thats fine, because the gameplay loop is enjoyable, in a movie that would be dreadfully boring, so you can safely condense…

I don’t think a lot of game movies are bad because they are attached to video game franchises and have to operate within the bounds of a pre established fictional universe. I think they are bad because they were just filmed in a pretty terrible manner. If all those crappy game movies weren’t called after game…

I have read it multiple times and each time I read it, the logical fallacies became more and more noticeable. Seriously, once you get to its core, its third grader logic, coupled with a lot of whining and some insults left and right. Dawkins is one of the worst advocates for Atheism possible. To be sure, Dawkins is…

The claim that something does not exist (as some Atheist do) without evidence to back up said claim qualifies as a belief.

Meh, a gap year isn’t that helpful. For one, you can only find out if you like studying something if you actually start studying it. A gap year may help you orientate for a little longer, but spending a year working is no guarantee that you will enjoy whatever you will do in college, or that your orientation in any…

Yeah but at the same time, going for a degree because it teaches you skills you think are useful for a job you think you want when you are 18 can be a mistake as well. I tried that and I wasted 3 years, first figuring out that learning stuff like business administration and accounting are things I loathe studying and…

A revenge fantasy is not a ‘dangerous mental instability’ its a fucking fantasy. And as long as someone is capable of clearly distinguishing fantasy from reality, they are absolutely fine and going to a shooting range to shoot at cardboard targets is perfectly safe.

Unless your culture is to deny certain people that kind of respect and you argue that denying people that kind of respect is wrong, you essentially argue that their culture is wrong. From there its just a small step towards arguing that people should change their culture to be more in line with what you think is right…