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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
I think 1 thing is being lost here.
Not every culture embraces the same beliefs. If the overwhelming majority of people in a culture believe something is wrong who are we to argue with that?
The biggest problem I have about our North American culture is the sheer intolerance for anyone who shares different beliefs. It's more or less our way or its wrong, then we preach that intolerance is wrong.
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You hit it.
As someone who doesn't support gays, yet am still respectful towards them - you get compared to nazis who mercilessly killed millions of innocents.
I think when Russia is accused of not being "democratic", it's just an accusation thrown around when they have different views than us.
And through all this note that Russia is my culture's greatest sworn enemy. But in this situation I think they're right.