• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    Their only dignified escape from the conservative nightmare is by their own hand. Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing.

    Conservatism is a plague of oppression and death. And the plague is spreading.

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    Latest: The Taliban have decreed that any woman caught attempting suicide will be put to death.

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      Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t some JudeoIslamic factions already punish suicide with death?

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        Yes. Though it’s not really as hypocritical as it seems at first glance.

        Assume you view suicide as being punished with eternal torment.

        Someone wants to kill themselves, but, if you kill them instead it isn’t a mortal sin.

        From your moral framework the execution is now a mercy. They no longer suffer, in this life or the next.

        Ya know, if you believe in sky daddies and whatnot.

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          I mean, even without the religious aspect, that might be kinda nice

          “We caught you trying to kill yourself through some nasty means, here, have some state sponsored painless nitrogen to breathe”

          I mean setting aside the horrible power it would give the gov, it’s a really funny image of someone being talked down from suicide by jumping into getting professional suicide help so they can do it easier

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        Suicide, really. That’s the last thing you should try. You realize that suicide’s a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they’d have hung you for it.

        – Peter Cook, Bedazzled (1968)

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            It’s the middle east, they’re not “minorities” in their own fucking country lol

            Armed the women? Certainly would have worked if they’d been willing to fight, probably would have only driven more Afghani army into the Taliban’s ranks though. Considering even the non-extremists in the area don’t want women equal to men at this point.

            Sharia law is the problem, we will never have a functional middle east until religious authoritarianism stops being the actual written law. Problem is most of them are comfortable in their current existence and have no reason to change. Any change we suggest or offer will just be met with “these evil westerners are trying to destroy our faith!”

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      There is hope for internal revolution still. An sooner or later internal unrest and change will happen, as it did in basically every other place in history.

      The only question is when.

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    Absolutely tragic, but I probably would do the same were I forced to live the life they’re forced to with no hope of escape.