(November 30, 2018 at 12:37 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote:(November 30, 2018 at 12:30 pm)Cherub786 Wrote: Some like the Afghans obviously value freedom a lot and are allergic to authoritarianism.
What the hell? Did you recently awaken from a three-decades-long coma?
The Taliban enforced religion on people, but that was already part of Afghan culture and norms. For example, burqas, beards, turbans, that has always been part of Afghan culture. Afghans have always been deeply conservative and religious people. The Mullas and Sufi mystics have always been very influential and powerful in that society.
But if you study the history of Afghanistan, you will learn that they have always had a strong anti-authoritarian bent in the sense that they never allowed for a strong central government to rule them. I've listened to the anthropologist Thomas Barfield's lectures on this point and he is spot on.
So I want to make a distinction between having a deeply conservative culture based on Religion and political authoritarianism.
I myself am a conservative Muslim, in terms of personal piety and ideas about morality, but politically I am libertarian and leaning toward anarchist ideas.
That is why I don't think that strict laws against narcotics, prostitution, porn and the like are bad. I am in favor of such laws. My libertarianism is not for these social issues but for political and civil liberty.
