That's an entirely correct observation, from our own perspective.
That's an entirely correct observation, from our own perspective.
However, if you are a Central or South American, or a Middle-Eastern or South Asian Muslim, whose society has not yet degenerated so far that homosexuality is openly celebrated and protected - if you come from a culture where homosexuality is considered filthy and unclean and unnatural and anathema and an abomination in the eyes of God and Man and Nature... in some cultures, killing a homosexual weighs just below running over a dog on the scale of (practical) criminal acts and punishments.
Perhaps this is just one big cultural misunderstanding --- after all ---we're all supposed to buy into Multiculturalism like good little Sheeple, aren't we?
That's an entirely correct observation, from our own perspective.
However, if you are a Central or South American, or a Middle-Eastern or South Asian Muslim, whose society has not yet degenerated so far that homosexuality is openly celebrated and protected - if you come from a culture where homosexuality is considered filthy and unclean and unnatural and anathema and an abomination in the eyes of God and Man and Nature... in some cultures, killing a homosexual weighs just below running over a dog on the scale of (practical) criminal acts and punishments.
Perhaps this is just one big cultural misunderstanding --- after all ---we're all supposed to buy into Multiculturalism like good little Sheeple, aren't we?
So after lionizing Putin the far right is now embracing the religion that was formally derided as allegedly being started by a "pedophile""? There must be some natural immunity to cognitive dissonance.
That's an entirely correct observation, from our own perspective.
However, if you are a Central or South American, or a Middle-Eastern or South Asian Muslim, whose society has not yet degenerated so far that homosexuality is openly celebrated and protected - if you come from a culture where homosexuality is considered filthy and unclean and unnatural and anathema and an abomination in the eyes of God and Man and Nature... in some cultures, killing a homosexual weighs just below running over a dog on the scale of (practical) criminal acts and punishments.
Perhaps this is just one big cultural misunderstanding --- after all ---we're all supposed to buy into Multiculturalism like good little Sheeple, aren't we?
So after lionizing Putin the far right is now embracing the religion that was formally derided as allegedly being started by a "pedophile""? There must be some natural immunity to cognitive dissonance.
It's like we can't keep up with their mood swings.
It would only be cognitive dissonance if one were talking about embracing the belief system on a holistic basis...
But... but... but... don't Liberals teach us that we must be tolerant of other Cultural Perspectives?
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Is this not the logical outcome of blind and complete Cultural Tolerance - a.k.a. Multi-Culturalism?
Manifesting the other side of that two-edged sword?
I, too, am appalled by what happened to the old guy, gay or not...
But the fellow who killed him probably had strong roots in a Third-World Culture that considers such sexual behaviors towards a fellow man to be grounds for an 'honorable killing'.
Object Lesson: We need to cherry-pick cultural mores and norms imported from radically-different cultures rather than lean towards mindlessly embracing or tolerating them simply to be able to say that we are tolerant.
This killing, if so motivated, may end-up proving to be such an example, to reinforce the validity of the cherry-picking approach.
It would only be cognitive dissonance if one were talking about embracing the belief system on a holistic basis...
Your analysis leaves no room for cherry-picking (recognizing) the good parts as the basis for narrow-context moral symmetry, and tossing-aside the bad, versus an all-or-nothing perspective...
But the possibility of cherry-picking does not reinforce your own perspective on the matter, and requires too much additional effort to process and critique, and may even expose a weakness or two in the position, so, why bring it up, right?
Much easier to make blanket statements, in order to advance the agenda, I'm sure.
It would only be cognitive dissonance if one were talking about embracing the belief system on a holistic basis...
Your analysis leaves no room for cherry-picking (recognizing) the good parts as the basis for narrow-context moral symmetry, and tossing-aside the bad, versus an all-or-nothing perspective...
But the possibility of cherry-picking does not reinforce your own perspective on the matter, and requires too much additional effort to process and critique, and may even expose a weakness or two in the position, so, why bring it up, right?
Much easier to make blanket statements, in order to advance the agenda, I'm sure.
It was a juxtaposed observation rather than an analysis. But don't let that stop you from your own indepth analysis and critique is you feel that it is necessary.
BAZINGA!
