praxis22 opened this issue on Apr 16, 2002 ยท 18 posts
Tephladon posted Thu, 18 April 2002 at 4:10 PM
I wish we did have some kind of a directive that allowed other cultures to be just what they are without having to answer to human rights violations half a globe away. I personally would like nothing better than to leave everyone to their own devices but it is far too late for that. Most of the world is woven into a large economical web. Chaotically speaking, what takes place in the jungle of of some backwood's south american mumba tribe can decide whether or not millions of people in the western world will have jobs the next day as some of their countrymen could be exploiting a natural resource found only there which is shipped by others and finally marketed and sold in the another country. Take away one of the products that make-up an alloy or a medicine, you could bring down a multitude of companies. This way of living that we have is very frail and based on limited resources. Talk about your basic dependencies. In history, the crusades strived to make sure that every thought like a single group and worshiped as they did with no forethought in the importance of diversity. Everyday, I see a commercial where some western person is speaking out against the way women are treated in the middle east or how children are exploited in parts of europe and asia and even the practices of religion in some countries. Truth is, I could care less. When they get tire of it, they will revolt and change things. I'm not some silly hippy going about and starting revolutions for causes I neither know or care anything about. I would just like this person to simply shut up and leave those people alone.