(July 3, 2014 at 2:51 pm)blackout94 Wrote: He isn't arguing that we should take their customs and laws as our example. His point seems to me to be that if they find that sort of behavior acceptable in their home countries, they are practicing a double-standard when they complain of France doing essentially the same thing: limiting dress by law.Yes, I understood that point. Let me clarify mine: I don't care. I don't care about their moral values that allow for the deprivation of individual free expression. What have anyone else's double standards got to do with our own? ('Our' as in Western democratic principles).
It's a fine distinction, but important.
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