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British tourist sentenced to three months in Dubai jail for ‘insulting’ airport staff
(www.independent.co.uk)
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There was a time that slavery was the custom in the US.
I'm not saying people should go around insulting everyone all day, I'm saying that using "cultural norms" as defense for any sort of punishment is dumb.
Cultural norms are factors in all legal systems, to pretend otherwise is to be (in your parlance) "dumb".
Just because it's normal, doesn't make it any less fucking stupid. Your argument is literally just more "it's just the way it is", which is again, fucking stupid. "appeal to tradition"
Again, that is what ALL legal systems do. Judeo-Christian "values" are what underpin legal systems in the Western world. The notion of "rights" and "privileges" stem from local tradition, they are not universal.
It isn't stupid to point out the truth but your inability to use civilized language is telling - it fully explains to me why you are so offended that somebody is being held to account for using impolite language for no justifiable reason.
Your clear sense of smug superiority is also pretty telling why you feel there's no problem here. Real "they aren't hurting the right people" energy. And you can't defend your argument with anything beyond "it's the way it is", so resort to ad hominem. Have a nice day Bruh
If your intention is to provide an explanation, that's a good point.
If your intention is to justify that law in a broad moral context then "it's the culture there" really isn't a valid justification, unless the point you want to make is that the country's culture is inconsistent with present day broad moral context, in which case it sounds about right.
Who gets to dictate present day broad moral context? Is a vote taken on such?
If a vote was taken, of all the people of the West, and all the people of whatever you define as not the west, and you asked all the free people AND slaves whether they think slavery is good, what do YOU think the results would be? There's your Present Day Broad Moral Context. Nobody wants to be a slave. You don't want to be a slave. Slavery is bad for humans to do to one another. This is easy.