Lovely QATAR Airways
October 28th, 2020 at 7:20:19 AM permalink | |
gamerfreak Member since: Feb 19, 2018 Threads: 4 Posts: 527 | Paco, what do you do for a living? Accounting? Actuary? Some sort of data science? You seem to enjoy collecting and presenting statistics. |
October 28th, 2020 at 7:38:29 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4236 |
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/07/richest-countries-in-the-world/39630693/ "Qatar is, by far, the richest country in the world, with a GNI per capita of $116,799" This article is from 2019, and based on GNI. Either way the point is, its rich and backwards. I was only illustrating that poverty does not equate with extremism (as many wrongly point out). There are plenty of uber rich countries with backwards social policies. Many of the 911 suicide pilots were very successful. |
October 28th, 2020 at 7:41:44 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4942 |
How do you define backwards? Who is to say that we are not the backwards ones and that they are doing things correctly? Just because you don't agree with it doesn'tmake it wrong. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
October 28th, 2020 at 9:21:25 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4236 |
By Western Values they are backwards. I can give many examples, but did you not read the OP of what they did to every woman on the plane? Have a totalitarian theocracy is backwards. If your society relies on trampling on the rights of others it is empirically backwards. Qatar is backwards. |
October 28th, 2020 at 9:29:06 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4942 |
It is empirically backwards according to Western values, but maybe Western values are backwards. It is all a matter of opinion. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
October 28th, 2020 at 9:42:45 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4236 |
Its not. If your system violates the rights of others, your system is wrong. Western Values are the product of the fire of enlightment, they are the best basis we have for human rights. Secular Western Values are simply the best for overall human wellness, this can be demonstrated by life expectancy, protected rights, and free expression. Qatar lacks free expression to take an easy example, their internet is carefully censored, not just to block anti-government posts, but also anything that goes against Islam (including gambling websites, even WOV). This is minor compared to their physcial human rights violations, but its a tangible example of backwardness (to value a religion over freedom of expression is empirically wrong for society). |
October 28th, 2020 at 9:45:44 AM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 |
And you think our internet isn't censored? It is just that you agree with what they censor. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
October 28th, 2020 at 9:57:03 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4236 |
In USA, no, there is no censorship of any activity that is not activivley a crime (unless you count shutting down human trafficking sites and underage porn sites as censorship). We can say anything online without fear of reprisal (again say, not do, if you use the internet for an illegal purpose such as to solicit sex from a minor, that is illegal). In your country, there is some censorship on the internet, not nearly to the extent of Qatar, but Canada and Europe have slightly less free speech than America (there are more "hate speech" restrictions etc...) Again, even Canada is a false equivalent, because the restrictions are virtually nothing compared to Qatar. But, yes, I agree with shutting down sites that host illegal porn and are used for trafficking humans. Does that count as censorship? I guess if you want to get really semantic..... |
October 28th, 2020 at 9:58:10 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
The internet is not censored Create your own web page. That's what Matt Drudge did Same right as speaking out on a street corner Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
October 28th, 2020 at 11:35:32 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4942 |
Do humans deserve rights not afforded to other mammals? If so, why? At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |