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I'm not sure what perspective Saudi Arabia's laws give us. In Saudi Arabia homosexuality is punishable by death, does that give us any perspective of how they
by jhamburger 15y ago
I'm not sure what perspective Saudi Arabia's laws give us. In Saudi Arabia homosexuality is punishable by death, does that give us any perspective of how they should be treated here?
- mike_organon 15y agoYes, that's better than a lynch mob with no rule of law.
- nske 15y agoIs it, really? I for once would pick living amongst a disorganized mob who would lynch me upon suspicion of doing something that I also consider unjust, over an organized society that would punish me, through the best procedures, for something that I find my fundamental right. Neither case is ideal, obviously, but it's better for a society to miss procedures than a sense of individual rights. Also, I think it is far easier for a society to build procedures/laws than change radically its perceptions on what is right and what is wrong.