Afghan Boy Play

[brewer]

This is the kind of shit that always seems to come back and bite us in the ass down the road.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/....html?_r=0

[Faith No More]

Who says we're just looking out for our own interests in the Middle East?

[Aoi Magi]

And people somehow still believe morality comes from God

[Regina]

I'm tired of this "because it's their culture" argument faux-liberals love throwing around.

The boys who are victims of this, you think it's their culture too? These airheads act like these children are getting raped with broad smiles across their faces because "it's their culture". Come at me rapist, it's "our culture" so you can rape me and I'll love it.

This makes me so angry. Where's your fucking common sense?

I also find it very interesting that the rape of young boys (presumably by adult men) is acceptable, in the same "their culture" that topples brick walls on top of live adult gay men for having consensual gay sex with other adult men. Fuck this "culture", I'm done with it.

[Minimalist]

Afghanistan is going right down the shitter after Iraq.  Frankly, neither is a culture worth saving.

[vorlon13]

What do we think about the parallels to the Star Trek universe's "Prime Directive" ?

The planet where everyone reaching age 60 was executed, the planet of dopers and the parasitic planet supplying their dope, the proto-Vulcan culture that worshiped Picard, leading inhabitants of a doomed planet to a completely different planet via a holodeck cave simulation, (there are more) . . .

This cultural respect concept has been explored in fiction, how do we perceive it's applicability in real life ??

[Minimalist]

Take the idea to the extreme, V.  Suppose we had a culture of cannibals?  Would we respect that?

Then suppose we had a culture of cannibals sitting on top of a shitload of oil.  Would our opinions differ?

(Think Saudi Arabia.)

[BrokenQuill92]

Just remember culture makes it okay! Yay weasel stomping day!

[vorlon13]

My take on the first amendment (not shared by too many other people) does not preclude (willing) (members only) (beyond age of consent) human sacrifice in established sects and schisms that 'believe' in it.

And that would apply to cannibals too.

As a matter of record, cannibalism is noted in scripture as a punishment from God, so there is built in resistance to punishing it from a legal stand point. The surviving members of the Donner party (not all who survived, BTW, committed cannibalism) were not prosecuted.

IIRC, even Jeff Dahmer was prosecuted for murder, not eating his victims.

Hell, Alferd Packer has a cafeteria named after him in Wyoming somewhere . . .

[vorlon13]

IIRC, Wild Boyz showed cannibalism on an episode, and there wasn't any FCC trouble. Andrew Zimmern was apparently leaning towards it in the infamous Madagascar circumcision episode. He didn't eat the 'anchovy', but my recollection is the man who did was televised doing so. And again, there was no FCC action, I don't even recall any reports of pulpit denouncements.

Bear Grylls rectally imbibed (in a distant wide angle shot) water contaminated with bird feces. I'm presuming that's 'worse' (somehow) and again, silence from all the leaders and shakers.

I'm not defending boy rape in Afghanistan, BTW, just exploring how it's perceived and why. The above citations seem to imply a variable and intermittent standard that is applied to such horrors.